taste quotes

17 quotes

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

Christopher Hitchens

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Thomas Jefferson

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Karl Lagerfeld

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don’t need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.

Stephen Curry

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

Keanu Reeves

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Francis Bacon

The French have got taste.

Vivienne Westwood

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

Brian Eno

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln