#taste

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#becomes #companion #delightful #doubtful #flatterer

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#fancy #judge #lord #spell #taste

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#imagination #past #refers #taste

I see myself as an arbiter of taste. ↗

— Vera Wang

#i #i see #myself #see #taste

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#communist #communist party #diluted #member #party

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing. ↗

— Fred Durst

#anything #bad #bad taste #cause #eligible

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#down #good #i #mainly #movies

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#good #menu #taste

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#ever #food #good #had #inexorably