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taste

Quotes including the word “taste”.

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Jane Austen

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

Charles Bukowski

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Jean Genet

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Khalil Gibran

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Samuel Johnson

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Lautreamont

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Vinci da Leonardo

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

Jack London

I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

Alexander Pope,

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

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Schopenhauer

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Percy Shelley

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

Thucydides

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.