Quotes about Sense of Taste

I was brought up on a farm in Southwest France, eating farm-fresh produce three times a day. It was paradise on Earth, and it shaped my eating habits and my sense of taste. Votes: 4

The fact is: America's obsession with meat and dairy has pretty much destroyed our sense of taste. The average burger and milkshake meal is so overloaded with fat, salt and sugar that it has numbed our taste buds to virtually anything else. Votes: 4

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer. Votes: 4

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. Votes: 3

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. Votes: 3

Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul. Votes: 3

Taste is the common sense of genius. Votes: 2

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. Votes: 2

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Votes: 2

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. Votes: 2

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. Votes: 2

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste. Votes: 2

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks. Votes: 2

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses. Votes: 2

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense. Votes: 2

My style can't be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need to have all their senses ready to take on my comedy, and unfortunately, TV alienates at least their sense of touch, taste, smell. Votes: 2

South America was not really that open - you had to fit in, and I didn't fit in. I was different - my tastes, my point of view - were a bit weird, and I found in Britain a sense of calm, that I could just be. Votes: 2

Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely. Votes: 2

A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery. Votes: 2

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell. Votes: 2

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. Votes: 2

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense. Votes: 0

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. Votes: 0

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. Votes: 0

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Votes: 0

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. Votes: 0

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. Votes: 0

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. Votes: 0

taste is like a sense of humor. I never met a person who didn't think they had one. Votes: 0

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour. Votes: 0

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Votes: 0

I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure. Votes: 0

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose. Votes: 0

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes. Votes: 0

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living. Votes: 0

In a blind taste-test, my kisses were rated as Helen Kelleresque. Women love how the only sense I keenly possess is nonsense. Votes: 0

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone. Votes: 0

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. Votes: 0

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. Votes: 0

I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense. Votes: 0

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. Votes: 0

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life. Votes: 0

God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe. Votes: 0

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me. Votes: 0

I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me. Votes: 0

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense. Votes: 0

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it. Votes: 0

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts Votes: 0