Quotes with taste

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  • Henry Louis Mencken No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Cyril Connolly No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Benjamin Jowett Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Benjamin Haydon One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Samuel Butler People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Billy Collins People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Maxwell Maltz 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.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Greil Marcus Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith 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!
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Brett Hoebel Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Thomas Jefferson Taste cannot be controlled by law.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Susan Sontag Taste has no system and no proofs.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Stephen Bayley Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Robert Aris Willmott Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.
    Robert Aris Willmott
    English cleric and author (1809 - 1863)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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