Taste Quotes - Page 40
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Strong Motion: A Novel”, p.171, Macmillan
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.216, Hackett Publishing
What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?
John Milton (1861). “Paradise regained, Samson Agonistes, etc”, p.216
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.101, Penguin
John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.256, A&C Black
Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.111
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.137
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.83, Ravenio Books
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.
Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.20, Crown Archetype
The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.
Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.107, Diderot Publishing