"Anthony Trollope," Century Magazine (July 1883); reprinted in Partial Portraits (1888).
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
“For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste.”
The March of Literature (1939)
Context: For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.
Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
Source: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
“I appreciate that you have your own tastes, but — give me a break!”
On being asked to return to her "natural" brunette hair, when actually she is naturally a blonde who occassionally dyes her hair darker, in "This Just In!" (30 January 2007)
Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“Talent is the enemy of taste. Taste is the enemy of talent.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie.
François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm.
Misattributed
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
