These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself byapplying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.12.

   A bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

-Balliett,Whitney
  His definition of a critic. Dinosaurs in the Morning, introductory note.

Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.

-Baron
Quoted in  A  J P  Taylor Beaverbrook (1972), ch.13.

Good tasteisbetter thanbadtaste, but badtasteisbetter than no taste, and men without individuality have no tasteöat any rate no taste that they can impose on their publics.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
  In the Evening Standard, 21  Aug.

Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Title and sub-title of book.

O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 34:8^10.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:103.

   We are na fou, we're nae that fou, But just a drappie in our e'e; The cock may craw, the day may daw, And ay we'll taste the barley bree.

-Burns, Robert
  'Willie brew'd a peck o' maut', chorus.

Though taste, though genius bless To some divine excess, Faints the cold work till thou inspire the whole; What each, what all supply May court, may charm our eye, Thou, only thou can'st raise the meeting soul!

-Collins,William
  Odes on Several Descriptive and  Allegoric Subjects,'Ode to Simplicity', no.8.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

-Delacroix, (Ferdinand Victor) Euge'  ne
  The Journal of Euge'  ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948).

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Daniel Deronda, bk.2, ch.13.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Daniel Deronda, bk.2, ch.15.

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

-Farquhar, George
  The Beaux' Stratagem, act1, sc.1.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.

-Fulbright,J(ames) William
  Speech to the US Senate, 21  Apr.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

-Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
  Speech. Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985).

Nothing†makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.

-Hazzard, Shirley
  People in Glass Houses,'Official Life'.

Let others drink thee freely; and desire Thee and their lips espous'd; while I admire, And love thee; but not taste thee. Let my Muse Fail of thy former helps; and only use Her inadult'rate strength: what's done by me Hereafter, shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

-Herrick, Robert
  'His Fare-well to Sack'.

For Love's sake, kiss me once again, I long, and should not beg in vain, Here's none to spy, or see; Why do you doubt, or stay? I'll taste as lightly as the Bee, That doth but touch his flower, and flies away. Once more, and (faith) I will be gone: Can he that loves, ask less than one?

-Jonson, Ben
The Underwood,'A Celebration of Charis', no.7 (published1640).

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

-Jowett, Benjamin
Quoted in Evelyn  Abbott and Lewis Campbell (eds) Letters of Benjamin Jowett (1899), ch.6.

Public radio is a ghetto of good taste.

-Keillor, (Gary Edward) Garrison
  In National Public Radio broadcast, 9 Feb.