Good taste Quotes · Page 4

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

— Duke Ellington

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

— John Steinbeck

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

— Helmut Newton

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

— John C. Dvorak

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

— Georgia Holt

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

— Jim Kerr

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Anthony Bourdain

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

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

— E. M. Forster

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red,…

— John F. Carlson

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be…

— Millicent Fenwick

My sisters are the ones who are always well dressed. Mukti, especially, has a good taste in clothes.

— Shakti Mohan

I understand that some fans want to express their feelings with signs, and they should do so, as long as they stay…

— Daniel Snyder

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but…

— Diego Della Valle

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give…

— Vivienne Westwood

“Everyone thinks they have good taste, but most people do not have good taste. In fact, I'd argue that most people have…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is…

— Kanye West

“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For…

— Ira Glass

Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am…

— Georgia Harkness

I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am…

— Jill Sobule

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression…

— Denholm Elliott

“The essence of good taste is never to be offended by bad taste.”

— Hugh Hewitt

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

— John Waters

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

— Marshall McLuhan

“I want to tell you something but good taste Restrains me”

— Sappho van Lesbos

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

— Anonymous

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

— Dejan Stojanovic

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

— Jane Green

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

— George Bernard Shaw

Food has to look good, it has to taste good and it has to be good for you.

— Eric Adams

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

— Jean Patou

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

— Kaija Saariaho

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

— Millicent Fenwick

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Dave Hickey

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

— Phil Collins

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

— Anonymous