“Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.” MenMadeTasteJudgmentAdmire Author:Ernestine Rose
“Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.” IfsUseCausesTasteAdmirePurityTestedFiniteUniversality Book:Selections and Essays Source: Selections and Essays
“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.” StillsBeautifulYoungLife IsGrowsSidesImagineFailingTreeFlowerTasteFutureDegreesWasteFruitDisappearAdmireOpeningDesertButterflyPausesLife Is LikeLanesBleakTemptingYoung LifeBeautiful Butterfly Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.” WayHumansPersonsSufferingDifficultTasteDignityComplexesAdmireTragicHuman DignityMonotonousDealingsWallowingMisadventure Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“I wouldn't not listen to something because it was country. I usually listen to stuff that friends give me, if I admire their taste.” IfsGivingCountryStuffTasteGive MeAdmire Author:Albert Hammond, Jr.
“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.” WorldHouseBloodTasteAdmireGentleKnivesRelish Author:John Cheever
“I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.” IfsThinkingMenWantMomentsHandsEyeSchoolVoiceMovementTasteIllusionTricksShouldersAdmireToneGood TasteAdmire You Book:The End of the Affair Source: The End of the Affair
“The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.” LittlesStillsHomeNationsToo MuchFateHonorDrinkTasteBandBeatsBirdBlueInstrumentsWarmAdmireCardsCupsMilkComposerImitationHornsJacketsBassViolinTrumpetsNostalgicParadesGood TasteGreat NationsReedsHarpsFlutesViolaPlaying CardsPercussionTromboneTubasFrench Horn Author:Daniel Handler