Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste."
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Taste
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Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?"
Helmut Newton
Photographer
"I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things."
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"Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure."
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"The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us."
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"Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste."
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"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
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"Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had."
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"I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory."
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"Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like."
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"The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast"
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"I have a simple taste, only the best."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."
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"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
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"Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps"
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"Taste is the feminine of genius."
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"And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time."
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"Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet."
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"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
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"Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it."
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