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These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself byapplying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
A bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.
Good tasteisbetter thanbadtaste, but badtasteisbetter than no taste, and men without individuality have no tasteat any rate no taste that they can impose on their publics.
Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.
O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
We are na fou, we're nae that fou, But just a drappie in our e'e; The cock may craw, the day may daw, And ay we'll taste the barley bree.
Though taste, though genius bless To some divine excess, Faints the cold work till thou inspire the whole; What each, what all supply May court, may charm our eye, Thou, only thou can'st raise the meeting soul!
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
Nothingmakes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.
Let others drink thee freely; and desire Thee and their lips espous'd; while I admire, And love thee; but not taste thee. Let my Muse Fail of thy former helps; and only use Her inadult'rate strength: what's done by me Hereafter, shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
For Love's sake, kiss me once again, I long, and should not beg in vain, Here's none to spy, or see; Why do you doubt, or stay? I'll taste as lightly as the Bee, That doth but touch his flower, and flies away. Once more, and (faith) I will be gone: Can he that loves, ask less than one?
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
Public radio is a ghetto of good taste.
I hate a manwho swallows it, affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives.You have to be habituated to it.
The things people had once held against her unconventional beautyun-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French foodwere suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.
Look not thou on beauty's charming, Sit thou still when kings are arming. Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep thy finger, Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.
Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.
Elegantiae arbiter. The arbiter of taste.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
A little bad taste is like a splash of paprika.We all need a splash of bad tasteit's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical.
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
These people in the senseless hurry of their idle lives do not read books, they merely snatch a glance at them that they may talk about them. And even if this were not so, never forget what I believe was observed by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
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