Taste Quotes - Page 21

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

He who tastes not, knows not.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Good taste is always bad.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.