31 quotes found
“Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.”
“Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.”
“Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.”
“It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.”
“We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.”
“Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.”
“My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.”
“A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.”
