“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best
Variant: I am easily satisfied with the very best.
“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Letter to his father, Manley Hopkins (16 October 1866)
Letters, etc
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
As quoted in Chopin's Letter.
Source: Chopin's Letter (1988) by Henryk Opieński,E. L. Voynich, p. 4
“Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.”
Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) American art critic
Quoted by Stephen Bayley in The Observer http://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jul/29/communities.architecture (28 July 2007)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) American poet, novelist, editor
Quits; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.
“We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.”
Daniel Pinchbeck (1966) American author and journalist