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Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. - Henry Brooks Adams The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. - Aristotle The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. - attributed to Isaac Asimov Bad taste is a species of bad morals. - Christian Nestell Bovee Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. - Mel Brooks Taste is the feminine of genius. - Edward FitzGerald Exuberance is better than taste. - Gustave Flaubert One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. - William Hazlitt (1) There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and taste for emotions of recognition. - Henry James, Jr., Partial Portraits (On Trollope) Taste cannot be controlled by law. - Thomas Jefferson We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. - Joe Orton It's finger lickin' good. - Colonel Harland Sanders There is no disputing about taste. - quoted by Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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