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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and taste for emotions of recognition.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

Mistaking taste for genius is the rock on which thousands have split.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

May not taste be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it?