Jane Austen Taste Quotations

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.