Quotes About Taste

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

I suppose you really like them dirty, said Miss Vyner. That's it. Dirty and full of divine mystery, said Cobbler, rolling his eyes and kissing his fingers. "Sheer connoisseurship, I confess, but I've always preferred a bit of ripened cheese to a scientifically packaged breakfast food.

She tasted like buried treasure and swing sets and coffee. She tasted the way fireworks felt, like something you could get close to but never really have just for yourself.

There is a certain kind of humor that rises below vulgarity. It isn't merely in the worst possible taste; it aspires to be in the worst possible taste.

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.

Kitsch lives with one foot in the realm of aesthetics and another foot in the realm of ethics.

Moreover, since it is in the nature of tastes to differ, how can a standard erected by one person's taste be used to cast judgement on another's? How, for example, can we pretend that one type of music is superior or inferior to another when comparative judgements merely reflect the taste of the one who makes them?

it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss.

El vino no es sólo un objeto de placer, sino un objeto de conocimiento, y el placer depende del conocimiento

A change of taste is not a 'change of mind', in the way that a change of belief or even of moral posture is a change of mind.

I taste the darkness, I hear the song the moon sings.

In case they don't have strawberry, which one – chocolate or vanilla?

However, he was persistent, which pleased or displeased people according to taste.

I know a good chop house near Macy's. Do you like mutton chops?" "Hate them." "Idiot. That heavy, gamy taste … nothing like it." "Can I get a broiled kidney?" "Of course." "Then let's have lunch at your chop house.

the coffee was burnt and stewed.

If someone were to ask about your taste in fine dining and you were to say, "I lean toward food served with vivid adjectives," you'd probably get a pretty strange look;

i cooka da meatball

I was a vegetarian for a year. Not out of some moral choice, but because I wanted new stuff to taste. Except tofu. Fuck tofu. It's the lamest reason to chew. And in the end how do we know that vegetables aren't more intelligent and sensitive forms of life than those made of meat? We don't.

Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple

However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very

Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!

it had a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy and hot buttered toast

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.