Top 100 Quotes About Good Taste
#1. Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.
Ray Bradbury
#2. The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
Joe Orton
#4. My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
Marian McPartland
#5. Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.
John F. Carlson
#6. Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work ... get into it because we have good taste.
Ira Glass
#7. In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.
John Steinbeck
#8. He was natural and sublime, but had not so much as a single spark of good taste, or knew one rule of the drama.
Voltaire
#9. We are all photographers, that's how we remember things; with pictures in our minds. Some of us have good taste and passion to make it an art form and just a few warriors who know the technicalities and marketing make a living out of it.
Ben Tolosa
#10. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.
Ira Glass
#11. Guys don't want women with good taste, guys want women who taste good.
Sheryl J. Anderson
#12. My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.
John Waters
#13. A wine cellar requires order, forethought and good taste,' the old man used to say. 'These are the virtues that made Britain great.
Ken Follett
#14. My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
Boris Karloff
#15. Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.
John Keay
#16. I understand that some fans want to express their feelings with signs, and they should do so, as long as they stay within the boundaries of good taste and don't block the view of other fans.
Daniel Snyder
#18. The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
#19. Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste.
Toni Morrison
#20. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
#22. Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
George Bernard Shaw
#24. We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
Patrick Chappatte
#25. Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.
Jim Butcher
#27. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
#29. Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Mel Brooks
#30. A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.
Andrew Bird
#31. There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Sarah Vaughan
#32. Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?
Cary Grant
#34. One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
Millicent Fenwick
#35. It's so crude' complained her mother, who believed in Good Taste the way Sunday worshipers believed in the Immaculate Conception. She wasn't quite sure what it was but she was sure it was important.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.
Nalini Singh
#37. Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
#38. The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
Denholm Elliott
#39. In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.
Kylie Tennant
#40. The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.
G.K. Chesterton
#41. What did the soup say to the tea plate?
"You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#42. It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste.
Nicola Yoon
#43. Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.
Vincent Price
#44. A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.
Letitia Baldrige
#45. Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
Rich Mullins
#46. I hugged her because she was proof that Luke had good taste in women and he had settled on me which said a lot about both of us.
Kristen Ashley
#47. Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
Madame De Stael
#48. Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.
Vivienne Westwood
#49. There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
Bertolt Brecht
#50. I like Victoria Beckham - she has really good taste. Also, Natasha Poly, Miranda Kerr, and Alessandra Ambrosio. They know how to dress effortlessly sexy, but still cool.
Ieva Laguna
#51. My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.
Phoebe Philo
#52. I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
Mason Cooley
#53. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.
G.K. Chesterton
#54. To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#55. 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.
Albert Allen Bartlett
#56. Ethan chuckled. "And are you aware you keep looking over here like you're nervous I'm going to disappear?"
"It's because you're devastatingly handsome."
He grinned slyly. "I wasn't questioning your good taste.
Chloe Neill
#57. Some people have such good taste they can't enjoy anything.
Marty Rubin
#58. I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure.
John Rabe
#59. We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
Dan Futterman
#60. Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
Arnold Bennett
#62. Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
Craig Brown
#63. In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
Russell Lynes
#64. I gotta hand it to ya, Tristan. You may be a world-class fuckup with what you done to Lisa, but you got taste, man. You got good taste.
A. Violet End
#65. I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and don't let anyone tell you not to.
Connor Franta
#66. I've always had real good taste; no matter how poor I've been, I've had good taste in clothes.
Georgia Holt
#67. You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
Wendi McLendon-Covey
#68. Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
Vitruvius
#69. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable.
Hermann Hesse
#70. The choice is ours to hear the echoes, to heed the call: when life isn't good, taste and see that the Lord is.
Matt Rogers
#71. I didn't really imagine a girly chandelier in here when I built the house, but you've got good taste." He winked. "Of course I do. I picked you, didn't I?" I teased, then crossed the space to him.
Aria Cole
#72. We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
Clementine Paddleford
#73. The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!
Liza Minnelli
#74. When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.
Confucius
#75. On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.
V.S. Pritchett
#76. Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.
Millicent Fenwick
#78. My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
Domhnall Gleeson
#79. Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
Eric Hoffer
#81. She'd always known that if she'd picked the right man to pluck her cherry, he would appreciate her good taste.
Gwen,Kiss Of The Highlander
Karen Marie Moning
#82. [The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.
Eric Andre
#83. She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so.
Truman Capote
#84. It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling - or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.
Clement Greenberg
#85. Good taste is not the birthright of snobs, but a gift from God sometimes found in the unlikeliest of people".
Richard C. Morais
#87. Clearly a woman of good taste, she was reading a historical romance. I loved historical romances. And contemporary romances. And paranormal romances. And young adult romances. Pretty much anything in front of the word romance would do it for me.
Darynda Jones
#89. Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.
Paulo Coelho
#90. The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
C.S. Lewis
#91. I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
Cy Twombly
#92. It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
Ann Robinson
#94. Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.
Franco Moschino
#95. We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
John Ruskin
#96. It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#97. There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Steven Spielberg
#98. I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.
Dorothy Parker
#99. He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as he sensed the end coming so that whoever discovered him would know he had a good taste in literature.
Andrew Peterson
#100. Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps
Alexander McCall Smith
