Good taste Quotes · Page 3

Tact is good taste in action.

— Diane de Poitiers

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

— George William Curtis

Too much good taste can be boring

— Diana Vreeland

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

— John Waters

Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths.

— Jeff Giles

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

— Helmut Newton

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

— Neil Young

Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste.

— Grace Jones

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

— Mason Cooley

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

— William Bernbach

The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more…

— Liza Minnelli

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look,…

— Mitt Romney

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to…

— Craig Brown

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents…

— Jeff Goldblum

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

— Millicent Fenwick

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

— Eric Andre

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as…

— Ira Glass

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves,…

— V. S. Pritchett

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in…

— Paulo Coelho

That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried…

— Julia Glass

When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or…

— Jesse Shera

It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I…

— Ira Glass

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

— Stendhal

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

— Eazy-E

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

— Michael Patrick King

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

— Arnold Bennett

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

— Zadie Smith

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

— Mary Brave Bird

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

— Anonymous

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

— Eric Andre

When I lay with my boyfriend I look at his face on how blessed I am to have good taste.

— Anonymous

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

— Jean Patou

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

— Millicent Fenwick