Best taste & delicate Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.”

Mind May Ideas Would Be Fine Please Taste Essence Refuse Intellect Suits Compliment Delicate Shocked Flattery Disgusted Fine Lady

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.”

Art Effects Fine Genius Taste Aspect Appreciation Faculty Delicate

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.”

Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]

“Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.”

Men Culture Understanding Mankind Taste Faculty Delicate Superiority Distinguished Soundness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.”

Seems Language Mankind Expression Flower Taste Universal Mediums Symbols Serving Sentiments Delicate Finest Gross Fitting

Author:George Stillman Hillard

“Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.”

Littles Real Virtue Taste Affection Active Delicate Real Love

Book:The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

“The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.”

People World Writing Feelings Natural Perfect Grace Security Style Fine Taste Profound Depth Delicate Daring Engaging Distinguished Polish Careless Vigorous Naivete

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.”

Taste Delicate Good Sense

Author:Joseph Chenier

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