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Quotes About Connoisseur

I consider myself a pancake connoisseur, because of all the pancakes I've eaten around the world. I've been everywhere in Europe, I've eaten everywhere.
~ P. J. Tucker
A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.
~ Peter Mayle
All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust- the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron.
~ Ray Bradbury
The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
~ Theophile Gautier
My father was a great connoisseur of music and arts. He said, 'I will encourage you in anything you do, but make sure you get a solid education.' So, I studied in the finest schools and went on to become a qualified barrister but didn't take up law because my music was my area of interest.
~ Adnan Sami
I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur of telling people what I think is good and bad.
~ Joel McHale
I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
~ Michael Caine
I guess I always have been a collector.
~ Kyle Mooney
It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.
~ James Holzhauer
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
~ Peter Straub
I'm a Telecaster connoisseur, and I love my Teles. I have one from almost every year since the very beginning, in 1950. I'm so obsessed with them.
~ John 5
Usually, if you're going to be a manager, you always want to talk about football and be a connoisseur of the game.
~ Andy Cole
Connoisseurs need not be aristocratic, but must adopt or reject people and tastes according to a patrician sensibility that ignores the worlds of productivity and profit. Money is esteemed as a means to acquire what they value, but despised as a provider of power, showiness, luxury, over-eating or barbarous hobbies.
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
~ Susan Sontag
From beneath the Disney new-releases rack, Kasabian's head begins to wail. "Oh God! Oh Jesus, fuck! I'm dead!" It's quality wailing. Downtown, I became kind of a connoisseur of wailing and this is prime stuff. "I'm dead! I'm dead!
~ Richard Kadrey
He was something of a connoisseur where hangovers were concerned and the one he had now fell squarely into the Class-A, copper-bottomed, ocean-going bastard category
~ Richard Nichols
Engineers love pretending to be beer snobs.
~ Sarah Cooper
I am a tea connoisseur and my idea of absolute heaven is a tea shop.
~ Sarah Lancashire
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
~ Angela Carter
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
~ Susan Orlean
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
~ Alton Brown
I'm the sommelier of slaying
~ Alex White
This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone.
~ Alexander McCall Smith