Charles Lamb Quotes

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me.

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

Everybody likes their coffee different.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

All tastes are expressions of belief.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

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Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.

Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

Never let what is popular actually define your taste or interests.

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.