Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.
Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.
Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.
No noble man ever hated good wine.
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
Taste is the next gift to genius.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.
A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.
Food lovers tend to make life difficult for themselves on their travels. It's like travelling first class, if your expectations are so high, you're bound to be disappointed.
Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.
To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.
Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
