Quotes of Taste - somelinesforyou

“ Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ”

- William Cowper

“ A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. ”

- Saadi

“ Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do. ”

- David Wilkerson

“ I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste. ”

- Alain Rene Lesage

“ Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having put forth the best within you. ”

- Henry J. Kaiser

“ My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Taste has no system and no proofs. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Taste is tiring like good company. ”

- Francis Picabia

“ Taste may change, but inclination never. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ To possess taste, one must have some soul. ”

- Marquis de Vauvenargues

“ Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. ”

- Vicomte de Chateaubriand

“ Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ”

- Nikki Giovanni

“ Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ”

- Stephen Bayley

“ Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ”

- Anne Bradstreet

“ Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Good taste is the flower of good sense. ”

- A. Poincelot

“ What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. ”

- Julia Cameron

“ Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. ”

- Wilferd A. Peterson

“ You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it. ”

- Jonathan Klein
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