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Quotes About Taste

Wine is bottled poetry.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
~ Oscar Wilde
I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
~ Aristophanes, The Knights
Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.
~ John Ruskin
Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.
~ Heather Brewer
Mmm. O positive, my favorite.
~ Richelle Mead
Mmm. O positive, my favorite." "Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon." "So it is," said Adrian, straight-faced. "My mistake.
~ Richelle Mead
Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If I had the power, I would ban leggings.
~ Jil Sander
Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.
~ Lynda Resnick
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
~ James Franco
The young man gave Cloyd a poke. "You must crave the taste of trout, the way you hung onto 'em.
~ Will Hobbs
Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.
~ Will Rogers
Ik eet vis met een vieze vork van een vies bord. Deze vis smaakt zo verrukkelijk, dat ik in vervoering een toespraak zou willen houden!
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
You have deliberately tasted two worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain.
~ William Archibald Spooner
We have to do so much, especially in my own country, that our minds gradually cease to be creative, and yet we cannot help it. If our life was a continual Warfare, we would not have taste, we would not know what is good, we would not find hearers and readers.
~ William Butler Yeats
it is an obvious bit of interpretation to say that the Queen of Hearts is a symbol of "uncontrolled animal passion" seen through the clear but blank eyes of sexlessness; obvious, and the sort of thing critics are now so sure would be in bad taste; Dodgson said it himself, to the actress who took the part when the thing was acted.
~ William Empson
But fear is a cheap emotion, however full of wisdom. And, emotionally speaking, I've always thought of myself as a man of expensive taste.
~ William Kennedy
I sat on the steps of my father's church thinking how much I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The delicious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
~ William Kent Krueger
I loved the dark. The taste of what it offered sweet on the tongue of my imagination. The de licious burn of trespass on my conscience. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
~ William Kent Krueger
He closed his eyes for a moment and tasted the emotions before they slipped away.
~ William Lashner
She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.
~ David Benioff
I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine... gentle yet courageous, possessed, has a cultivated as well as a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own to approve or amend my plans.' Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1819
~ David Boyle