Tastes

Famous quotes containing the word tastes:

“The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity.... Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general’s sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds.... Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)

“A divided orange tastes just as good.”
—Chinese proverb.