Quotes with taste

  • There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
  • Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
  • To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
  • Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
  • Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
  • But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
  • Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Gilda Radner I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • George Eliot Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Susan Sontag Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Voltaire It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Taste does not come by chance: it is a long and laborious task to acquire it.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Brad Feld 'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Barbara Holland A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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  • Margaret Mead A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • George Eliot A difference in taste of jokes is a great strain on the affections.
    Daniel Deronda (1876)
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Eliot A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alexander Pope A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. R. Ammons A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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