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Taste Quotes and Quotations
 Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.  Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Taste is the feminine of genius. Taste is the enemy of creativeness. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one. Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. Taste cannot be controlled by law. One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense. Everyone to his taste. My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic. A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. - Napoleon Good taste is the flower of good sense. The finer impulse of our nature. Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man when he kissed the cow. 
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