Oliver Goldsmith Taste Quotations

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.