Alas Quote by Tom Lehrer

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people…

— Margaret Cho

“A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove a toilet…

— n+ 1 Magazine

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with…

— Ann Bridge

“Even if it is true that the average man seems most comfortable with the commonplace and familiar, it is equally true that catering to…

— Paul Rand

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Anonymous

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer