Age Quote by John Armstrong

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ...…

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— Anonymous

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general,…

— Edmund Burke

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“Politeness must be cultivated, for the promptings of nature are eminently selfish, and courtesy and good-breeding are only attainable by effort and discipline. But…

— Arthur Martine

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do…

— Rich Mullins

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

— Millicent Fenwick

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

— Baltasar Gracian

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only…

— Susan Sontag