Taste Quotes

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste.

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

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

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

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

Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.