| | |

taste quotes

English (21) Français (6)

edits filters

“Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.” Jack London, Martin Eden
“the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste...” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“In the highly mechanised countries, thanks to tinned food, cold storage, synthetic flavouring matters, etc., the palate is almost a dead organ.” George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
“one should never argue about plays or novels. Everyone has his own way of looking at things, and what may be horrible to you is, perhaps, just what I like best.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Related topics

experience food love self truth mind change memory art personality relationship interest pleasure revenge blood hunger criticism water kiss poison

Related authors

Marcel Proust (2)
George Orwell (1)
Mahatma Gandhi (1)
George R. R. Martin (1)
Jane Austen (1)
Mao Zedong (1)
Jack London (1)
Neil Gaiman (1)
John Green (1)
Margaret Atwood (1)
Ambrose Bierce (1)
Jerome K. Jerome (1)
Ian Fleming (1)
Charlotte Brontë (1)

Related sources

Swann's Way (2)
Jane Eyre (1)
The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1)
The Fault in Our Stars (1)
The Blind Assassin (1)
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1)
American Gods (1)
Three Men in a Boat (1)
A Clash of Kings (1)
Casino Royale (1)
Sense and Sensibility (1)
The Devil's Dictionary (1)
Martin Eden (1)
The Road to Wigan Pier (1)