People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

—Samuel Butler

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About Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...

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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

—Samuel Butler

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

—Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

—Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

—Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

—Samuel Butler

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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

—Edith Sitwell

Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street and there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and sensual and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterward, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.

—Jonathan Tropper

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I don't want a taste of something I can never have.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

—James Thurber

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