Taste Quotes

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

The finer impulse of our nature.

A person is well dressed when dressed in good taste.

It's finger lickin' good.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

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.]