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"Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's - you can't taste it, you can't smell it... Why did we waste our money on this, bloody - why are we on a traffic island?""
"It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder."
"All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art."
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
"Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."
"To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response."
"ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all."
"You've got to change with the public's taste."
"Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance."
"If God is in everything, why shouldn't you taste Him when you eat?"
"English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve."
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity."
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
"He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat."
"Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things."
"I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste."
"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
"The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment."
"When you taste honey, remember gall."
