Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. ”
Le bon goût, le tact et le bon ton, ont plus de rapport que n'affectent de le croire les Gens de Lettres. Le tact, c'est le bon goût appliqué au main- tien et à la conduite; le bon ton, c'est le bon goût appliqué aux discours et à la conversation.
Maximes et Pensées, #427
Maxims and Considerations, #427
Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Source: A Moveable Feast (1964), Ch. 1
“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.
“If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.”
Transfers, (2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/6366009.stm
Arsenal (1996–present)
“I've never written for a fasting man;
A taste of wine is good before my verse.
But sleep is better than a little wine,
For when sleeping one thinks my songs are dreams.”
Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis<br/>legerit, hic sapiet.<br/>Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista<br/>somnia missa sibi.
Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quis
legerit, hic sapiet.
Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet ista
somnia missa sibi.
"De Bissula", line 13; translation from Harold Isbell (trans.) The Last Poets of Imperial Rome (1971) p. 48.
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 54, p. 291
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
Context: The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
“From wine what sudden friendship springs!”
VI, "The Squire and His Cur"
Fables (1727), Fables, Part the Second (1738)
