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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.