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Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

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

True purity of taste is a quality of the mind; it is a feeling which can, with little difficulty, be acquired by the refinement of intelligence; whereas purity of manners is the result of wise habits, in which all the interests of the soul are mingled and in harmony with the progress of intelligence. That is why the harmony of good taste and of good manners is more common than the existence of taste without manners, or of manners without taste.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

There is no disputing tastes. [Lat., De gustibus non est disputandum.]

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

For what has Virro painted, built, and planted? Only to show how many tastes he wanted, What brought Sir Visto's ill-got wealth to waste? Some demon whispered, "Visto! have a taste."

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.