Quotes about Taste
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No one, indeed, will voluntarily and willingly devote himself to the service of God unless he has previously tasted his paternal love, and been thereby allured to love and reverence Him.
— John Calvin
Those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.
— John Calvin
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
— Henry David Thoreau
Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred. She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.
— Edith Wharton
Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms ideals, and above all forms judgment.
— Edith Wharton
And it points forward, urging us toward the realization that this hint and taste of union might actually be true. It guides us like an inner compass or a "homing" device.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.
— Richard Sibbes
The single best and easiest thing you can do for your health is to recalibrate your taste buds and learn to enjoy pure clean water.
— Rick Warren
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him.
— Laurence Sterne
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
— William Wordsworth
we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.
— William Wordsworth