“The word taste has different meanings, which it is easy to mistake. There is a difference between the taste which in certain objects has an attraction for us, and the taste that makes us understand and distinguish the qualities we judge by.”

“…shall we say that the difference between a vegetarian and a cannibal is just a matter of taste?”

“Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.”

“Each of us has that ember within him to create his own Camelot, to form his life by taste. Being different from the crowd, like quality, is not a vice. Tradition and standards shape shooting as surely as manners make the man.”

“Each kiss is unique. The difference of the kiss is its taste, which you immortalize in your mind, until you taste a better one.”

“Elegance is not a matter of good taste. Every culture has its own idea of beauty, which is often completely different from ours.”

“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”

“For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.”

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”

“To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them.”