Good taste Quotes

“Food that's good for you should taste good! ”

— Norene Gilletz

I'm big on what's in good taste.

— Frank Ocean

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

— Rita Mae Brown

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

— Millard Drexler

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

— Mary Quant

You can't legislate good taste.

— George Clooney

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

— Mel Brooks

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

— Francois Fenelon

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

— William Bernbach

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

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

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

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

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Shankar Mahadevan

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

— Dan Futterman

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

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

— Craig Brown

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

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

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

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…

— Clement Greenberg

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

There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners…

— Charles Dickens

“It is natural to care for those who have cared for us, but at the point a man has been dead a…

— Joshua Gibbs

In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In…

— Pauline Kael

Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion,…

— Marvin L. Cohen

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we…

— Ira Glass

One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of…

— Bonnie McFarlane

It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just…

— Sergey Brin