Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.