Logo
Quote by Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams
Other Quotes from
Style
category

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. – Jean De La Bruyere

Category:
Style

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Style

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. – Coco Chanel

Category:
Style

Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
Style

Random Quotes

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. – Laurel Clark

Category:
Science

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Poetry

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs. – Ron D. Burton

Category:
Leadership

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Category:
architecture