Pastoral Resources

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Exuberance is better than taste.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again.

Reality is an acquired taste.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.