38 Tasteful Quotes

If you're on a quest for wisdom, inspiration, and a touch of elegance, look no further. Our curated collection of the top 38 tasteful quotes offers profound insights and timeless wisdom from some of the most influential thinkers, writers, and visionaries. Each quote has been carefully selected to provide a moment of reflection and a spark of inspiration, making this collection a perfect source of daily motivation. Dive in and let these thoughtful words elevate your spirit and mindset.

1. “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” - Winston S. Churchill

2. “The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.” - Clive Barker

3. “This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.” - Oscar Wilde

4. “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” - Oscar Wilde

5. “You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!” - Ed Wood

6. “Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3 -- two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)” - Ally Carter

7. “Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.” - Murakami,Haruki

8. “The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]” - Tim Gunn

9. “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

10. “When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran.” - Laura Kalpakian

11. “Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.” - J.K. Rowling

12. “I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.” - Karl Lagerfeld

13. “If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.” - Matthew Scully

14. “After you, it's all cheap tequila.” - Jacqueline Carey

15. “Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” - Ambrose Bierce

16. “Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.” - Janeane Garofalo

17. “It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.” - Nigel Slater

18. “The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.” - Jennifer Donnelly

19. “I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.” - Brigid Lowry

20. “If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.” - Grace Metalious

21. “The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.” - Ryu Murakami

22. “If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.” - Wilkie Collins

23. “The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.” - W.H. Auden

24. “Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.“But it doesn’t matter because, look, here come the waiters. They are scraping away the debris with their little horn and steel blades, pulled with studied grace from the hidden pockets of their white aprons. They are laying new tablecloths, arranging new cutlery, placing before me great domed wine glasses, newly polished to a sparkle. There are more dishes to come, more flavors to try, and this time I will not spill or spit or drop or splash. I will not push the plate away from me, the food only half eaten. I am ready for everything they are preparing to serve me. Be in no doubt; it will all be fine.” (pp.115-6)” - Jay Rayner

25. “Don't be cool. Like everything.” - Shaky Kane

26. “It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

27. “I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...” - Markus Zusak

28. “A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.” - Jodi Picoult

29. “Ik lees nauwelijks fictie. Onder ons gezegd en gezwegen, ik vind het iets voor verveelde huisvrouwen. Fictie. Dan Brown heb ik gelezen, omdat zoveel mensen dat kochten. Ik dacht, eens kijken of de massa smaak heeft. Maar dat was dus niet zo.” - arnon grunberg

30. “A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate ataste for it.” - Aaron Haspel

31. “But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, smell and taste still remain for a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, on the ruin of all the rest, bearing without giving way, on their almost impalpable droplet, the immense edifice of memory.” - Marcel Proust

32. “Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.” - Philip K. Dick

33. “That tastes like hope feels.” - John Green

34. “And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted” - Lin Yutang

35. “The two Mast Houses just within the Victory Gate of Portsmouth Dockyard are raised above the water on piloti. They are structures of remarkable grace, clinker-built, painted the palest green. They are vast, as they needed to be. Their survival is an industrial site devoted for a century to the servicing of mastless vessels is a matter for celebration. The use of which the more southerly is put is a matter for obloquy: the Mary Rose Shop is a repository of tawdry, insipid tat. It's the sort of stuff to make me wince- a dismal, timid inventory of mediocrity. Bad taste is forgivable. It's no taste which is so disheartening.” - Jonathan Meades

36. “Мнозина искат да минат за хора с вкус, като отричат постоянно. Но истинският вкус се позвнава само по това, което той утвърждава.” - Атанас Далчев

37. “It tastes like water spiked with strange.” - Mary Roach

38. “Les hommes sensibles préfèrent sortir le soir au matin, la nuit au jour, et la beauté des femmes mûres à celle des jeunes filles.” - Paul Léautaud