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Quotes About Taste

Don't just look, observe. Don't just swallow, taste. Don't just sleep, dream. Don't just think, feel. Don't just exist, LIVE.
~ Unknown
Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.
~ Marcel Proust
Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.
~ Marcel Proust
He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.
~ Marcel Proust
But the words of Saint-Loup did not displease me since they recalled that pretentiousness is closely allied to stupidity and that simplicity has a subtle but agreeable flavour.
~ Marcel Proust
And once again I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-flowers which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy), immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.
~ Marcel Proust
But except Cinq-Mars I have never been able to read a thing by M. de Vigny. I get so bored that the book falls from my hands.
~ Marcel Proust
the mustard on the roof of my mouth gave me the feeling that someone was removing my nasal hair with a blowtorch.
~ Unknown
The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours. Tracker's favorite time and music.
~ Unknown
Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
~ Margaret Atwood
For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?
~ Margaret Atwood
tête de veau en tortue
~ Unknown
Mi bacia a lungo sulla bocca, poi si lecca le labbra, dice che sono il sapore della sua vita.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
~ Unknown
We have all learned at an early age that the cold of ice cream is not very dangerous, and it is strange now to almost nobody. The great change in taste and attitude in our culture is not the least of the revolutions which the understanding and control of cold have wrought in our lives.
~ Unknown
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
~ Marguerite Gardiner
I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.
~ Marian Keyes
La ley del gusto termina en la mediocridad, en una vida que dejó pasar las oportunidades de llenar este mundo de belleza, de verdad y de amor[6].
~ Unknown
But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?
~ Marilyn French
Fear can be headier than whisky once man has acquired a taste for it.
~ Unknown
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
~ Dolly Parton
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.
~ Paul Bocuse
Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
~ Julia Child
Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon
~ Saadat Hasan Manto