No Taste Quotes

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

Taste is improved by cultivation.

Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it’s sterile and I like the taste.

Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

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

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

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

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

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

My summer tip is to taste the freedom given by the long days - and by the holidays!

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.