Bad taste Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad taste Englishmen Formidable Inspirational Language Taste
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me. — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
