Quotes with taste

Quotes 101 till 120 of 149.

  • Francis Picabia Taste is tiring like good company.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Taste may change, but inclination never.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Milton Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Susan Sontag The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Aldous Huxley The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • James Thurber The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Traherne The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Susan Sontag The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bill Bradley The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Billy Carter There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.
    Billy Carter
    American businessman, brewer, and politician (1937 - 1988)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edith Wharton There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Matthew Prior They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Ernest Hemingway This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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