Taste Quotes - Page 20

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.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

Mmm, tastes like hepatitis!

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon!

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.