I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste.