"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
— Oscar Wilde

"But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."
— Virginia Woolf

""You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!"
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— Ed Wood

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"raindrops taste like tears without the pain"
— queenryche

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
— Gustave Flaubert

"When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran."
— Laura Kalpakian (Educating Waverley)

"It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality."
— Nigel Slater (The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater)

"In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations."
— Diane Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses)

"If you avoid eating or drinking somethings keeping this in mind that it would make you will, you will get ill even if you avoid it. So its better to eat or drink it without thinking that it will make you ill. Always think that it should be tasty and delicious."
— Amanullah Ashraf

"One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings with more, the mobs of people desperately trying to define good taste in such loud voices one can hardly hear oneself giggle, while the shebang is lit by flashes and flares through the paint-stained window, glimmers under the police-locked door, or, if one is taking a rare walk outside that day, by a light suffusing the whole sky, complex as the northern aurora."
— Samuel R. Delany (Dhalgren)

"These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
— Henry Adams

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol."
— Ryu Murakami (Coin Locker Babies)