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137 Good Taste quotes by 119 unique authors

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to… — John Hench
I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure. — John Rabe
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the… — George Bernard Shaw
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to… — Madame de Stael
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. — Susan Sontag
Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the… — Sherwood Anderson
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. — Lester Beall
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue… — John F. Carlson
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative… — Ira Glass
Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture. — Giorgio Armani
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. — Salvador Dali
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and… — Francois Fenelon
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. — E. M. Forster
Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste. — Alexander McQueen
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. — Steven Spielberg
Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on… — Vivienne Westwood
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to… — John Updike
Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of… — Graham Greene
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life — Oscar Wilde
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But… — Dorothy Parker
Passion paralyzes good taste. — Susan Sontag
The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and… — Daniel Handler

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