Good taste Quotes · Page 4

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

— Phil Collins

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

— Dave Hickey

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

— Oscar Wilde

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

— Kaija Saariaho

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

— Cary Grant

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

— Cy Twombly

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

— Cary Grant

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all…

— Marian McPartland

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of…

— Mary Jo Putney

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If…

— Ernest Hemingway

Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's…

— Uzo Aduba

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had…

— Virgil Green

To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have…

— Shankar Mahadevan

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

— Diana Vreeland

I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the…

— Helmut Newton

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste.…

— Albert Allen Bartlett

During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned…

— Ernst Gombrich

In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan…

— Jay Leno

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention…

— John Hench

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order…

— Lynda Obst

In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker…

— Kylie Tennant

I have good taste, that's the one thing I'm cocky about.

— Ryan Phillippe

I think the greatest gift your parents can give you if you want to be a comedian is good taste.

— Seth Meyers

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

— Charles Bukowski

I've always had real good taste; no matter how poor I've been, I've had good taste in clothes.

— Georgia Holt

Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.

— John C. Dvorak

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

— Helmut Newton

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

— Anthony Bourdain

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I try not to be one of these dads who foists their innate good taste onto their children.

— Jim Kerr

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

— Boris Karloff

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

— William Bernbach

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

— Steven Spielberg

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

— Coco Chanel

DJ Jazzy Jeff is the best DJ you can have at a party. Did you see his playlist? He has good taste.

— Common

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

— Duke Ellington