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Taste Quotes

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The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
Joshua Reynolds

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Edward Burnett Tylor

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
Joe Orton

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
Jonathan Kozol

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. Apple, Jr.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Georges Rouault

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
David Rockefeller

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Bill Bradley

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

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
Michael Ritchie

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste.
Franz Beckenbauer

The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
Henry James

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.
Clint Walker

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Paul Gauguin

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

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