Top 64 Quotes About Connoisseur
#1. All the time he had been talking his hands had wandered over the Illustrations, as if to adjust their frames, to brush away dust- the motions of a connoisseur, an art patron.
Ray Bradbury
#2. To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
Georges Courteline
#3. Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
C.S. Lewis
#4. It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for.
Hunter S. Thompson
#5. I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.
Julia Glass
#6. I'm like a connoisseur of dry shampoo, so I'm really picky.
Khloe Kardashian
#7. Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that.
Sebastian Barry
#9. Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
Craig Claiborne
#10. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.
Jan Morris
#11. A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.
Peter Mayle
#12. She is the epitome of injustice, is my mistress. I never sulk, I am no glutton, and at that time I was barely thirty years of age, although to a fourteen-year-old anyone above twenty is an ancient, and I admit that, when it comes to food, I do have the refined tastes of a connoisseur.
Wilbur Smith
#13. Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
Franz Grillparzer
#14. But he was a connoisseur of the if-only, and so they did travel. They travelled in the past-conditional.
Julian Barnes
#15. The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
Pablo Picasso
#16. I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.
Matt Cutts
#17. I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.
Lynn Kurland
#18. The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.
Daniel Pinkwater
#19. There's more than one thing I can't do and there are a lot more things than that that you can't do or you wouldn't be in the newspaper business. You'd be a jockey and a scholar and a connoisseur of femininity like I am
Laura Hillenbrand
#20. In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
Edith Wharton
#21. I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.
Diane Keaton
#22. I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?
Jeff Henderson
#23. The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.
Thomas Harris
#24. I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
Susan Orlean
#25. God's a connoisseur of fragile things, and decorates His cloudy outlook with ornaments of finest glass.
Stephen King
#26. I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
Michael Caine
#27. For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.
Sting
#28. I was a professor of penis, a connoisseur of cock, a devotee of dick, an epicure of erections. I had made it my life's work to worship the male member. And what a member this one was.
Michael Murphy
#29. Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.
Osamu Dazai
#30. Well, anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur of neglected rivers and flowering mustard and the flush of iridescent pink on an intersection pigeon's charcoal neck.
Janet Fitch
#32. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united.
Jane Austen
#33. I had a connoisseur's ... appreciation of fear.
Peter Straub
#34. Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
Kenneth Koch
#35. I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
James Herriot
#36. The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#37. Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur.
Erin Heatherton
#38. The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
Erwin Panofsky
#39. Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.
Ray Romano
#40. I am a connoisseur of products. I check out everything, I try everything.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#41. Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
David Elliott
#42. Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.
Mel Gussow
#43. To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.
Sinclair Lewis
#44. The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
Salvador Dali
#45. Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way you live that makes you either an artist, or an art connoisseur, or an unsatisfied critic.
Mykyta Isagulov
#46. I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.
Alton Brown
#47. I am a connoisseur of rain (all of us introverts are).
Vivian Swift
#48. Agatha was a connoisseur of headaches, and was relieved at the transitory nature of this one.
Phil Foglio
#49. Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.
Constance Hale
#50. One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
Camille Paglia
#51. Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.
Holly Madison
#52. I don't know why you're enjoying this so much."
"Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.
Lynn Kurland
#53. He hasn't even eaten at Olive Garden, so I doubt he's a connoisseur of hotels." - Kat
"No Olive Garden? Man, we've got to get that boy some endless breadsticks and salad. Travesty." - Daemon
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#54. No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
Joyce Cary
#55. Wine came from grapes and grapes were fruit. If you were going to judge every wine connoisseur, you would also have to walk around the playground and slap the box of grape juice out of every child's chubby little hands as well.
Eric Dimbleby
#57. Connoisseur, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#59. I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.
David Rees
#60. Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
Robert Genn
#61. Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value.
Bel Kaufman
#63. Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
Camille Paglia
#64. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
Ambrose Bierce
