Best Acquired Taste Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sweetheart," West murmured kindly, "listen to me. There's no need to worry. You'll either meet someone new, or you'll reconsider someone you didn't appreciate at first. Some men are an acquired taste. Like oysters, or Gorgonzola cheese." She let out a shuddering sigh. "Cousin West, if I haven't married by the time I'm twenty-five... and you're still a bachelor... would you be my oyster?" West looked at her blankly. "Let's agree to marry each other someday," she continued, "if no one else wants us. I would be a good wife. All I've ever dreamed of is having my own little family, and a happy home where everyone feels safe and welcome. You know I never nag or slam doors or sulk in corners. I just need someone to take care of. I want to matter to someone. Before you refuse-" "Lady Cassandra Ravenel," West interrupted, "that is the most idiotic idea anyone's come up with since Napoleon decided to invade Russia." Her gaze turned reproachful. "Why?" "Among a dizzying array of reasons, you're too young for me." "You're no older than Lord St. Vincent, and he just married my twin." "I'm older than him on the inside, by decades. My soul is a raisin. Take my word for it, you don't want to be my wife." "It would be better than being lonely." "What rubbish. 'Alone' and 'lonely' are entirely different things." West reached out to smooth back a dangling golden curl that had stuck against a drying tear track on her cheek. "Now, go bathe your face in cool water, and-" "I'll be your oyster," Tom broke in.”

Cassandra Ravenel West Ravenel Tom Severin Acquired Taste Oyster

Book:Chasing Cassandra

Source: Chasing Cassandra

“Caviar. How very nice of them," Carol said, looking inside a sandwich. "Do you like caviar?" "No. I wish I did." "Why?" Therese watched Carol take a small bite of the sandwich from which she had removed the top slice of bread, a bit where the most caviar was. "Because people always like caviar so much when they do like it," Therese said. Carol smiled, and went on nibbling, slowly. "It's an acquired taste. Acquired tastes are always more pleasant--and hard to get rid of.”

Caviar Acquired Taste The Price Of Salt

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.”

Money Car Taste Railroads Acquired Taste

Author:Eleanor Robson Belmont

“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Remember Water Quality Objects He Man Lovers Taste Property Determine Substance Memorable Streams Native One Man Impress Susceptibility Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.”

Left Mankind Inspirational Life Taste Simplicity Minimalism Simplifying Life Acquired Taste Simplifying Your Life

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.”

Men He Man Taste Mark Leisure Acquired Taste

Book:Ladies of Lyndon

Source: Ladies of Lyndon

“The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.”

Silence Taste Appetite Silence Is Acquired Taste

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything”

Ifs Wells Made Used Strong Lovers Taste Ultimate Missions Headache Cigar Cuban Scotch Whisky Smokers Connoisseur Acquired Taste Scotch Whisky Cuban Cigars

Author:Marvin Shanken

“To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Water Lovers Streams One Man Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.”

People Taste Hollywood Flocks Acquired Taste

Author:Shawn Amos

“Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.”

Mean Levels Taste Cult Acquired Taste

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.”

Ifs Taste Driving Blizzard Acquired Taste

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty”

World Want Doe Taste Truth Is Complexes Acquire Frightening Deceived Dishonesty Acquired Taste

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.”

Ifs Looks Eye Joy Suffering Evil Ready Taste Guilt Useless Elsewhere Cult Live In The Now Caviar Evil Eye Acquired Taste

Author:Erica Jong

“It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”

Ifs Happiness Taste Despair Encounters Surprising Accustomed Coconuts Acquired Taste

Author:Daniel Handler

“Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)”

Knows Years Grows Worry Taste Know Me My Best Friend Mold Acquired Taste

Book:Seize The Night

Source: Seize The Night

“You smoke? (Randy) Only when I’m on fire. (Steele) I don’t appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I’m an acquired taste. (Steele)”

Fire Taste Appreciate Smoke Randy Acquired Taste

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.”

World Want Latin Deceived Acquired Taste Latin Phrases

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.”

Truth Honesty Taste Truth Is Ethics Honest Truth Truth And Honesty Truth Honesty Acquired Taste

Author:Mark Van Doren

“An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.”

World Believe Political Wonderful Taste Wretched Salad Dense Allegory Acquired Taste

Author:Manohla Dargis

“Reality is an acquired taste.”

Reality Taste Acquired Taste

Book:Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure

Source: Corporate Tides: The Inescapable Laws of Organizational Structure

“I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”

Knows Want Littles Taste Little Things Acquired Taste

Author:Tori Amos

“Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”

Taste Caviar Acquired Taste

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.”

Language Focus Mines Taste Acquired Taste

Author:Saul Williams

“Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.”

Writing Book Facts Bigs Deals Taste Oneself Bows Big Deal Knocked Down Write Your Own Acquired Taste

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.”

Taste Oneself Acquired Taste

Author:Patricia Hampl

“The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.”

Taste Acquired Taste

Author:Gilbert Adair

“An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.”

Taste Appreciation Prose Whiskey Scotch Whisky Acquired Taste Scotch Whisky

Author:Abigail Padgett

“I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.”

Thinking Taste Inspired Performers Handful Acquired Taste

Author:Marc Maron

“I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.”

Hard Remember Young Taste Brands Hitting Acquired Taste

Author:Jonathan Demme