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Quotes About Taste

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money.
~ Neel Burton
I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.
~ Ron Swanson
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
~ William Hazlitt
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
~ Diana Vreeland
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
~ Lucille Ball
Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
~ Steve Jobs
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
~ Mel Brooks
Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.
~ Andy Rooney
Fashion is not the latest trends. Because every trend is not for everyone.It is what suits you".
~ Reiss Field
I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.
~ Ana Patrick
As Arn expected, the venison tasted tough and dry and unspiced except for salt, which had been liberally applied.
~ Jan Guillou
She breathed in the scent of lemon blossoms, inspired by how their citrus sweetness mingled with fresh ocean air. Closing her eyes, she ran the tip of her tongue over her lips, tasting a faint saltiness in the moisture laden breeze. She imagined how dark, rich chocolate filled with the brightness of a lemon filling and dusted with chunky sea salt might taste. Delicious, she decided.
~ Jan Moran
Raisinable, which
~ Jancis Robinson
I adore food and always have.
~ Jane Asher
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
~ Jane Austen
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
~ Jane Austen
[A]utumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations...
~ Jane Austen
As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
~ Jane Green
The lamb melted on my tongue, and when I swallowed, it left little fireworks in its wake, a burst of citrus and chili and garlic and what seemed a dozen more subtle tastes as well.
~ Jane Johnson