A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
Thomas Hood

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
Stephen Potter

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
Ruggiero Ricci

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander Pope

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
Eugene Delacroix

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

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

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. Ballard

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.
John Norman

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.
Andrea Mitchell

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.
Thomas Keneally

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
Carter Burwell