Bad taste Quote by Aristophanes Download Open image “It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.” — Aristophanes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad taste Coarse Poet Poetry Taste
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As another year went by And a new year came to greet us I got up in the morning to take my class And in the afternoon, while sauntering down the road I saw a hairdresser's place inviting me in And so I met the hairdresser A fine young lad, and I told him to get my hair and beard… — Avijeet Das Copy Share
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works that selected the brightest passages but left out deeper contexts—eighteenth-century versions of Reader’s Digest were quite popular. More cautioned against a habit she viewed as cultivating a taste only for “delicious… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I… — William Cowper Copy Share
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“LYSISTRATA By the Goddesses, you'll find that here await you Four companies of most pugnacious women Armed cap-a-pie from the topmost louring curl To… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence… — Aristophanes Copy Share
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“LYSISTRATA You know how to work. Play with him, lead him on, Seduce him to the cozening-point—kiss him, kiss him, Then slip your mouth… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we become the symbolized? Were I to crown myself King, should I be King? Rather should I be an object of disgust or pity. These Magicians, whose insincerity is their safety, are but the unemployed dandies of… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
“Bryan gaped, as though that was more than he'd been expecting. "Oh. Okay. Well, um, there's a silent film festival downtown next week. Do you think you'd want to go?" I shook my head. "No, I don't think so. I respect it as an art form but really don't get much out of watching them." "Huh. Okay." He smoothed his… — Richelle Mead Copy Share
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies, as they are sometimes called, meet if they feel like it at program headquarters, which is known as La Gaucherie. La Gaucherie is densely furnished with seven thousand always-in-operation console color televisions, nine hundred constantly blaring… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
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