#taste

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it. ↗

— Henry James

#men #relationships #tastes #types #love

...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken to hum it and the street organs to play it, so the work of art that has appealed to the sham connoisseurs, that is admired by the uncritical, that is not content to rouse the enthusiasm of only a chosen few, becomes for this very reason, in the eyes of the elect, a thing polluted, commonplace, almost repulsive. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#discrimination #popular-art #popular-music #taste #art

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#taste #wallpaper #wild

Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter. ↗

— Joshua Caleb

#bitter #revenge #revenge-is-sweet #sweet #revenge

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too. ↗

— Billy Baldwin

#debt #due #europe #give #owe

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted ↗

— Lin Yutang

#taste #life

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#buds #depends #great #just #like

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#classic #dish #dishes #fancy #food

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#both #manners #more #myth #reality