I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.
Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.
Truth is disputable, not human taste.
Taste is tiring like good company.
If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.
Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.
Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar. ” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French. ” Yeah, but did it taste better?
Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.
To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.
I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.
There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country.
we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.