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Quotes about Taste

I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
- John Updike
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
- Erica Jong
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
- AA Milne
Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.
- Charlie Trotter
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
- Henry David Thoreau
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
- Albert Einstein
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
- Samuel Johnson
If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn't come in mouse flavor?
- Seth Godin
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
- Oscar Wilde
The sincerest love is the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
Murdoch is a brilliant and manipulative bastard; Evans is a brilliant and easily manipulated man of taste and honor.
- Michael Wolff
once again, just because I prefer Guinness to lemonade that doesn't mean I am not particular about the temperature at which the Guinness is served; and I believe Paul would have told Calvin to take his dark Irish beer out of the fridge, to let it come up to room temperature and taste its full flavour.
- NT Wright