I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to read more

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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.

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

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

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.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

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.