Quotes on Taste

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

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

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

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.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.