Taste Quotes

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.

If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

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

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Talent, taste, wit, good sense, are very different things, but by no means incompatible. Between good sense and good taste there exists the same difference as between cause and effect, and between wit and talent there is the same proportion as between a whole and its parts.

In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature: he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.