Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap read more

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is alwways the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.

Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

For each mouth, a different soup.

For each mouth, a different soup.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an read more

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.