Ralph Waldo Emerson Taste Quotations

I will not hide my tastes or aversions...If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.