Top 1200 Good Taste Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.

I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste.

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

My mother, grandmother and I all have different styles, but we share the same taste.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

And your skin, it tastes like me. I want to taste you everywhere.

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

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

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

When you're a good person, good things happen to you. You shouldn't be a good person with the expectation of therefore deserving good things, but in its purest form, I believe when you do good, good comes back to you.

The people on 'Quintuplets' were great, but I wasn't a producer on that show, and it wasn't exactly my taste.

We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

Chinese cuisine has so much diversity, the area it covers is so great and so is the taste.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.

Blue Face Disgusting taste Flush it Shush it Cold disgrace

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

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

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

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

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

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

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

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.