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Quotes About Taste

When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter.
~ Osamu Dazai
I am the sort of person who can forget even the name of the woman with whom he attempted suicide) to get off from work. The sushi I was eating had nothing to recommend it. Why, when I have forgotten her name, should I be able to remember so clearly how bad the sushi tasted?
~ Osamu Dazai
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
~ Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
~ Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
~ Oscar Wilde
Than to suppose that they like what is human and real, he means," said Beltran. "They don't care the least about that; they like a little broad farce, a little rough murder, and a little rosewater sentiment: anything more bothers them. They can't understand it.
~ Ouida
Olen maistanut Houghton White Burgundya, jolla hän loi maineensa - viini on syvää, paksua, sitkeää ja kultaista, kypsyyttä tihkuvaa mutta majesteettisesti vanhenevaa, kuin kuoropoikaan rakastunut leskirouva.
~ Unknown
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
They take a match and light it, and then puff away. "We will learn to smoke; do you like it Johnny?" That lad dolefully replies: "Not very much; it tastes bitter;" by and by he grows pale, but he persists and he soon offers up a sacrifice on the altar of fashion; but the boys stick to it and persevere until at last they conquer their natural appetites and become the victims of acquired tastes. I speak "by the book," for I have noticed its effects on myself
~ Unknown
Good taste is the enemy of creativity
~ Pablo Picasso
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
~ Pablo Picasso
I want them to see certain things. I want them to hear certain things. I want them to taste certain things.
~ Paco Underhill
You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
~ Padma Lakshmi
I might as well have declared my devotion to processed cheese.
~ Pamela Druckerman
He reads up on the science of taste and concludes that the main problem with new foods is simply that they're new. So just having them around should chip away at the eater's innate resistance.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Some people's happiness is always other people's kitsch.
~ Pascal Bruckner
Are the styles we embrace a matter of taste, or of values rejected?
~ Unknown
Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.
~ Patricia Briggs
Erde, geliebte Mutter, dein Kind ruft. Schmecke mein Blut. Erkenne deine Schöpfung, gewähre Einlass.
~ Patricia Briggs
The taste of his blood in my mouth made me ill, and I vomited beside the body until the taste of bile overwhelmed anything else. Then I left him lying in the middle of the road and ran back to the garage. I needed to check on Mac before I took on the task of dealing with the dead werewolf
~ Patricia Briggs
Samuel took a sip of tea, grimaced and set it down. He wasn't a tea drinker.
~ Patricia Briggs
butter and jelly. Two chocolate
~ Patricia Reilly Giff