Quotes About Taste

I learned the meaning of the word bittersweet, the acid taste of loss and the honey of hope in one bright fruit.

A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste

Does the Spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost over night?

We] were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing--half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

Good wine needs no bush.

Epicurean cooksSharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

I love long life better than figs.

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

The pledge of the Spirit is the foretaste of God as a sample and guarantee of the full taste of God. God has put Himself into us as a kind of down payment or foretaste so that we can taste Him within.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.