Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an read more

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

For each mouth, a different soup.

For each mouth, a different soup.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap read more

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.