Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p De gustibus non est disputandum is a Latin maxim meaning "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes" (literally, "There is no disputing of tastes"). Sometimes the phrase is expanded as De gustibus et coloribus... referring to tastes and colors.The implication is that everyone's personal preferences are merely subjective opinions that cannot be "right" or "wrong", so they should never be argued about as if they were.This phrase is quoted by Mitya in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.The phrase is misquoted in Act I of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull. The character Shamrayev conflates it with the phrase de mortuis nil nisi bonum (in the alternate form: de mortuis, aut bene aut nihil: "of the dead, either [speak] good or [say] nothing"), resulting in "de gustibus aut bene, aut nihil", "Let nothing be said of taste but what is good".It is deliberately mistranslated in Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in which the narrator states, "De gustibus non disputandum est—that is, there is no disputing against Hobby-Horses; and for my part, I seldom do".. }
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- De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum abstract "De gustibus non est disputandum is a Latin maxim meaning "In matters of taste, there can be no disputes" (literally, "There is no disputing of tastes"). Sometimes the phrase is expanded as De gustibus et coloribus... referring to tastes and colors.The implication is that everyone's personal preferences are merely subjective opinions that cannot be "right" or "wrong", so they should never be argued about as if they were.This phrase is quoted by Mitya in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.The phrase is misquoted in Act I of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull. The character Shamrayev conflates it with the phrase de mortuis nil nisi bonum (in the alternate form: de mortuis, aut bene aut nihil: "of the dead, either [speak] good or [say] nothing"), resulting in "de gustibus aut bene, aut nihil", "Let nothing be said of taste but what is good".It is deliberately mistranslated in Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in which the narrator states, "De gustibus non disputandum est—that is, there is no disputing against Hobby-Horses; and for my part, I seldom do".".