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A man of refined taste and judgment. -- Horace
First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment? -- Harold Ramis
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation. -- Greil Marcus
Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are. -- Horace Walpole
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. -- E. B. White
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. -- Maurice Sendak
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman. -- Ernestine Rose
For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's. -- Meredith Duran
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. -- Edmund Burke
But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind -- Jack London
You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read. -- Evan Esar
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. -- Baltasar Gracian
Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices. -- Baltasar Gracian
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature. -- Lionel Trilling
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor. -- Samuel Johnson

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