Top Taste Quotes
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
Jonathan Miller 
Stan Sakai 
Giles Gilbert Scott 
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Arthur Middleton 
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn 
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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons
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I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
Trevor Horn
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Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Romania
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Eugenio Montale
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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Popular Taste Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonFrancois de La RochefoucauldGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareJohann Wolfgang von GoetheSamuel JohnsonVictor HugoLucius Annaeus SenecaThomas JeffersonSamuel ButlerAmbrose BierceH. L. MenckenGeorge EliotAlbert Camus
Eric HofferAlexander PopeJohn RuskinDavid Herbert LawrenceE. M. ForsterMarilyn vos SavantCharles BaudelairePierre CorneilleCharles DickensJean de la BruyereGroucho MarxGustave FlaubertMarshall McLuhanWilliam Butler YeatsElia Kazan
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