Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Wharton

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

David Tudor

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

Edvard Grieg

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Aristotle

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Benjamin Franklin

The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast

Benjamin Franklin

When you taste honey, remember gall.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Bon Scott

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

Aristophanes

An actor should refine public taste.

Aristophanes

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

David Hume

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

David Hume

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Ben Wheatley

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Denis Leary

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Alexis de Tocqueville

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Miley Cyrus

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

George Henry Lewes

Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Charles Bukowski

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Tommy Amaker

I wish we could play. When you come off of a disappointing loss, you want to get back at it and get the feeling, the taste out of your mouth.

Ed Baker

Part of it is just that they taste so wonderful.

C. S. Lewis

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.