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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.

Taste is improved by cultivation.

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.