Best 1022 quotes in «taste quotes» category

Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

Good taste is always bad.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

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.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

He tastes like mint and need, as he overpowers me with his tongue.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

He knew he had no right to touch her, crave her like air, but he did both. And when he put his mouth on hers, he recognized the taste of her, like she'd been made just for him.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste.

"How could you love something so destructive?" I ask. "Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.