The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.