Top 1200 Acquired Taste Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

Why does everything so bad for you always taste so dreamy?

In the well-ordered home we may experience a taste of heaven.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

To be sure, China is nowhere as powerful as the U.S., but it has acquired the ability to impose its will on individual nations around the world. From Australia to Germany, South Africa to South Korea, political leaders are careful not to rub China the wrong way.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

I'd never let anybody share dessert with me or even have a taste.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Hunan Taste is definitely my favorite restaurant in Long Island.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

I've had my taste of huge fame and it was OK, but I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

The taste of street food in north India can't be found in Mumbai.

I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

Never let what is popular actually define your taste or interests.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

The United States must get a taste of its own poison.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.