best quotations about
Taste |
and Good taste
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Quotations
 | Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 14 likes |
 | My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 7 likes |
 | I like reality. It tastes like bread. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 5 likes |
 | “Taste is relative” is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 5 likes |
 | What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 3 likes |
 | Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 2 likes |
 | It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 2 likes |
 | A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
 | Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. |
 | Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. |
 | In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others. |
 | The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it. |
 | Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar. |
 | Good taste is the conscience of the beautiful and the beautiful is nothing but the conscience of the good taste. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | The Epicurean finds all that is not excellent detestable. |
 | Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Rules of taste enforce structures of power. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
| Sensuality is a cultural legacy of the ancient world. Societies where the Greco-Roman legacy is being wiped out, or where it does not exist, only know sentimentalism and sexuality. |
| The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste. |
Latin Quotes
 | In matters of taste, there can be no disputes. De gustibus non est disputandum. 28 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 3 likes |
