Bad taste Quote by Dorothy Parker Download Open image “A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.” — Dorothy Parker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad taste Dignity Inspiration Littles Nice Taste
A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical.… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was… — Diana Vreeland 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 hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person. — Helmut Newton 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
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I… — Dorothy Parker 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… — 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
