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Quotes about Taste


I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Gilda Radner

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katherine F. Gerould

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Henry Louis Mencken

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Salvadore Dali

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall Macluhan

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Edward Fitzgerald

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Charles Lamb

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

Oscar Wilde

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

John Milton

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Marquis De Sade

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.

Cyril Connolly

Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!

Wedding Toast

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Robert Burns

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