Tastes

Famous quotes containing the word tastes:

“Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

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