“People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.” PeopleThinkingBelieveMadeLostAudienceLike YouTasteIntelligentDistinctionArtificialUnderestimateMaximsLike YourselfLost Money Author:Douglas Adams
“It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.” WayRealityTasteSkillsJudgmentObservationMannersDistinctionDecencyRefined Author:Edmund Burke
“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.” StatesGrowsHoursDifferencesCommonWatchesTasteJudgmentMarkTitlesDistinctionSecondsTemperSmallestRefinedIngeniousCultivationStationaryHume Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.” MadeHappinessPleasureCommonObjectsTasteThousandImpressionDistinctionAppetitePropositionsGratificationTransientConversesGleamPleasure And Happiness Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)