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Taste Quotes - Page 10

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7”, p.58, Felony & Mayhem Press

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12847, Delphi Classics

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Elizabeth Berg (2008). “The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation”, p.137, Random House

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.59, Macmillan

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.579, Delphi Classics

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf