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“Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.”

Stories Half Taste Vices Suits Pleasant Epigrams

“He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.”

Should Writing Sometimes Age Justice Taste Perfection Aim Refuse Suits Posterity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.”

People Thinking Kind Enough Taste Horror Ego Intense Suits Indifference Insult Thrive Hostility Massage

Book:In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles

Source: In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles

“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

“The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.”

Want Persons Imagination Pleasure Tree Building Circumstances Promise Taste Equal Perfection Plant Suits Variety Lasting Decay Annuals

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

Men Firsts Lasts Law Wise Fashion Taste Foolish Suits Fantastic Tyrants Compelled

Author:Blaise Pascal

“It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”

Doe Personality Taste Ugly Suits Bad Taste Gaudy

Book:King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)

Source: King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)

“It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.”

Mind Body Care Natural Views Duty Taste Suits Temperament Mind And Body Cowardly Exaggerated Unwise

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.”

Knows Should Writing Years Has Beens Play Moral Five Stage Fine Taste Suits Useless Thirty Five Years

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.”

Men Firsts May Long Government Wife Ought Citizens Taste Conscience Concern Affection Neighbor Suits Interfere

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”

Should Firsts Circumstances Taste Rose Intention Critical Suits Irrelevant Composing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.”

Ifs Men World Heart Tree This World Fool Taste Succeed Tasks Intelligent Accomplish Seeds Tiny Suits Petty Appearing Latent Intelligent Man Mustard Mustard Seed

Book:Personality Development

Source: Personality Development

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

Men Ends Food Taste Essence Available Suits Transcendentalism Essence Of Life

Author:Sai Baba

“I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.”

Soul Kids Used Bits Boys Listening Grew Taste Grew Up South London Suits Shops Brown Pants Eclectic Bowie Neighbourhoods Taste In Music Eclectic Style Toppers

Author:Gary Oldman

“Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.”

People Ifs Giving Looks Important Helping Can Do Results Fashion Taste Sexy Suits Fantastic Good Taste

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.”

World Age Taste Suits Present Time

Book:New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

Source: New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

“I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”

Enjoy Please Taste Suits Independent Thought Candide

Book:Candide: or, Optimism

Source: Candide: or, Optimism

“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.”

Ifs Inspirational Heart Inspiring Fool Taste Tasks Intelligent Accomplish Suits

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.”

Way Doe Said Home House Personality Kings Taste Structure Ugly Suits Unusual Majesty Palaces Diplomatic Bad Taste Hereditary Gaudy

Author:David Eddings

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”

Believe Opinion Written Fool Habit Please Taste Independent Suits Admirable Independent Thought

Author:Voltaire

“I mean, if your about to tell me something like I'm dead, that i need to start acquiring a taste for blood, and I can't even eat sushi, I wont be able to handle it. Or if you're going to tell me that I'm going to start howling at the moon, eating peoples cats, and will spend the rest of my life having to get waxed if I want to wear a bathing suit, then I don't think I can handle it, either. I like cats and I tried waxing once, and that hurt like a son of a gun." -Kylie”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Mean I Can Able Hurt Blood Son Taste Moon Eating Gun Cat Handle Suits Bathing Sushi Bathing Suits Waxing

Book:Born at Midnight

Source: Born at Midnight

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