Quotes About Taste

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.

Butter is true divinity

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner.

It tasted like one of those herbal concoctions that health-food enthusiasts substitute for tea.

Se prueba el pastel comiéndolo; no en el libro de cocina.

Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.

rimane l'ombra di un sapore che la costringe a pensare acqua di mare, quest'uomo dipinge il mare con il mare.

And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did.

Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps

Meat was what men liked in sandwiches—and if the man was sophisticated, then he might like a bit of mustard as well.

James sniffed at the soup. "I love porcini to bits," he said. "They're the only mushroom I'd go out of my way for." "What about chanterelles?" said Matthew. "Porcini are delicious, but so are chanterelles.

Toasted tobacco, no additives,' I said. 'Yum. Tastes like childhood.

No," I said and smiled. "I just happen to like the taste of that particular grape." "Oh?" "Yeah. I think chardonnays are too oaky and heavy and German wines are too sweet. But if my roommate and I are sharing a bottle of something, it's usually on sale

You want to know what my doctor said the first time she saw it? Yes you do. She said everything about it gives evidence of an informed taste. That's a quote.

People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.