Top 100 Quotes About Good Taste
#1. [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#2. When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.
Paul Prudhomme
#3. Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.
Tori Amos
#4. I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.
Ron Ben-Israel
#5. Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.
Dennis Green
#7. Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement; intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without discernment and selection.
Baltasar Gracian
#8. 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 world in the end.
Sherwood Anderson
#10. Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.
John Kennedy Toole
#11. Julian, sometimes girls are like junk food. They look good, and they sure taste good ... but you know they're not healthy for you and cause cavities so it's better to just leave 'em alone. Got me?
Simone Elkeles
#12. Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
Neil Young
#15. If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
Simone Signoret
#16. 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
#17. A free lunch doesn't taste as good as a well earned dinner
Steven Aitchison
#18. I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
Luke Ford
#19. It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#20. A thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it?
Augustine Of Hippo
#21. 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 distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.
Kanye West
#22. Good God, is the man a heathen?'
'Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.
Melanie Jackson
#23. Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
Thomas Edward Brown
#24. A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
Pola Negri
#26. No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.
L.M. Montgomery
#27. When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.
Richard Simmons
#28. There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste
Helmut Newton
#29. To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
Stendhal
#30. People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
Mary Quant
#31. Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.
John C. Dvorak
#32. You taste so good. I could kiss you forever. (Adron)
You're not so bad yourself in a lethal, I'll-kill-you-if-you-look-at-me-wrong kind of way. (Livia)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
Willem Dafoe
#34. As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
Jane Green
#35. A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.
Finley Peter Dunne
#36. This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
Jean-Georges Noverre
#37. I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
E.L. Doctorow
#38. Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes.
And psychotic killers.
Karen Marie Moning
#39. Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
Cary Grant
#40. And my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Dan Simmons
#41. The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me.
Sirio Maccioni
#42. Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh
#43. I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.
Tom Rush
#44. Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
Courtney Love
#45. Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
Kaija Saariaho
#46. The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
David Rockefeller
#47. Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.
Jody Watley
#48. Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.
Sandra Newman
#49. To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.
John Waters
#50. And far away in goddamn L.A. or Madison Avenue is the prick who decided that Skittles would sell more quickly if they promised Jalens they would taste the fucking rainbow which is like a complete fucking impossibility and even if it wasn't who said a rainbow would even taste good you know?
Sergio De La Pava
#51. I like the night beach. The full moon. The moonlit sand, the waves silvery in the brightness. Nature is sexy, and that makes me think God is alive and has very good taste.
Beth Ann Bauman
#52. But it felt good to cry, to let her shoulders shake, to feel the hot tears on her face, to taste their baby salt, to wipe snot all over the underside of her shirt.
Dave Eggers
#53. If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.
Richard Kadrey
#54. A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
#55. I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!
Paula Deen
#56. Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.
Giorgio Armani
#57. For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship -- Sadie
Alice Kimberly
#58. The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life
Alison Croggon
#59. With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
Valentina Zelyaeva
#60. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, 'Look, that's not a good taste.'
Mitt Romney
#61. If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
Arsene Wenger
#62. If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.
Marcel Duchamp
#63. She'd seen what was between his legs and she wasn't ashamed to admit she wanted to see it again. More than just see it. Touch and taste would be a good start.
Katie Reus
#64. I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
Neil Gaiman
#65. People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.
Mary Brave Bird
#66. I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn't as good as they wanted it to be.
Ira Glass
#68. Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong,
Be it in music, painting, or in song:
But this, as well as other faculties,
Improves with age and ripens by degrees.
John Armstrong
#69. My words are the kisses but many of the times they don't taste so good as the touch of your lips does to mine.
Santosh Kalwar
#70. When you have dinner with the Devil, you learn that either you have good taste or that you have bad taste.
Lionel Suggs
#71. I always knew you had good taste, Mia. You should go talk to him." "I should go talk to him. I should also file my taxes on time, remember to floss regularly, and inherit seven million dollars. But I won't. Ever.
Sara Wolf
#72. Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a matter of connection with fellow citizens and of democratic education.
Jeffrey Rosen
#73. never forget a snob is a person utterly lacking in good taste.
Richard C. Morais
#74. Vice is a wonderful thing," Catherine said. "The people who go in for it seem to have good taste about it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#75. As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
Mario Batali
#76. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
#77. 13"You are the salt of the earth, k but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
Anonymous
#78. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits.
Richard Kadrey
#79. My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes.
Wynter Gordon
#80. The last thing I want to do is harm her. Especially now. She's in me. I breathed her in. I kissed her and took a good long taste. This is not just a female I enjoy. This one is so much more than that. My beast has chosen and the man seems to agree.
Lauren Dane
#81. Bad taste
creates many more millionaires than good taste. It finally
boiled down to a matter of who got the most votes. In the
land of the moles a mole was king
Charles Bukowski
#82. I place my hands on his chest. He presses me into the curve of his body. Tilts my chin up to meet his eyes. "I'll be good to you," he whispers. "I'll be so good to you, Juliette. I promise."
And he kisses me. Hungrily. Desperately. Eager to break me open and taste me.
Tahereh Mafi
#83. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
Helmut Newton
#84. The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
Millicent Fenwick
#85. You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.
Fran Lebowitz
#86. I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.
Kingsley Amis
#87. I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Uzo Aduba
#88. Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
Carmel Snow
#89. Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.
Diego Della Valle
#90. There was an undoubted affinity in his mind between the two great passions of his life: revolution and good brew. The taste of one immediately brought to mind the other.
Guy De Maupassant
#91. 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 just shoot me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#92. I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.
Vaclav Havel
#93. If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly ... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well ... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.
Hilaire Belloc
#94. I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously.
Jill Sobule
#95. He'd bet his right nut her skin would taste as good as it smelled.
Kelly Moran
#96. Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean De La Bruyere
#97. I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
Mike Ditka
#98. I am pleased with the exhibition ... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste ...
Claude Monet
#99. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
Frederick Buechner
#100. 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
