Bad taste Quote by Arnold Bennett Download Open image “Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.” — Arnold Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad taste Character Good taste Inspirational Love Taste
[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and it answers… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“When one has thoroughly got imbued into one's head the leading truth that nothing happens without a cause, one grows not only large-minded, but… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.” — Arnold Bennett 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
“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… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
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… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
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