Discriminating Taste Quotes

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

I think that the typical Emilia Wickstead women is very effortless, very sophisticated: she's got alluring style, and she's always taking on fashion. I always describe her as 'imaginative with her own taste'.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I am a bit fussy when it comes to films.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.

I just don't want to do films for the sake of it.

I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.