Tastes

Famous quotes containing the word tastes:

“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)

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

“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)