Exquisite Taste Quotes

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

A man of refined taste and judgment.

It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

I want every dish to be a ten.

In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

I love myself a truffle. I can put a truffle in anything and make it good.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.