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.

Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.

Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

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

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

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

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

For each mouth, a different soup.

For each mouth, a different soup.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

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.

have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.