Quotes with tastes

  • The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
  • No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
  • By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
  • All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
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  • Marquis de Sade Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bee Wilson All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Oscar Wilde I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buddy Rich I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • An Wang Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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  • Victor Hugo My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Lord Chesterfield No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Pauline Kael One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Johnson Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Carter Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
    Billy Carter
    American businessman, brewer, and politician (1937 - 1988)
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  • Mario Puzo Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
    De Peetvader p. 395
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • John Updike The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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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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