Quotes about Good Taste

You can't legislate good taste. Votes: 2

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. Votes: 2

Good taste is as tiring as good company. Votes: 2

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Votes: 2

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. Votes: 2

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste. Votes: 2

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. Votes: 2

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. Votes: 2

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. Votes: 2

It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything. Votes: 2

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. Votes: 2

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. Votes: 2

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. Votes: 2

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. Votes: 2

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours. Votes: 2

Passion paralyzes good taste. Votes: 0

Good taste is always bad. Votes: 0

Good taste rejects excessive nicety. Votes: 0

Good taste consists first upon fitness. Votes: 0

Tact is good taste in action. Votes: 0

Taste is tiring like good company. Votes: 0

Taste and good-nature are universally connected. Votes: 0

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life. Votes: 0

Good taste is the enemy of creativity. Votes: 0

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good. Votes: 0

Good taste is the enemy of comedy. Votes: 0

Too much good taste can be boring Votes: 0

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense. Votes: 0

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge Votes: 0

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra. Votes: 0

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing. Votes: 0

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste. Votes: 0

If only art were as rare as good taste ... Votes: 0

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it. Votes: 0

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring. Votes: 0

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. Votes: 0

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. Votes: 0

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. Votes: 0

They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy. Votes: 0

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. Votes: 0

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu Votes: 0

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. Votes: 0

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. Votes: 0

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste. Votes: 0

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste. Votes: 0

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Votes: 0

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste. Votes: 0

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. Votes: 0

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me. Votes: 0

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test. Votes: 0

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste. Votes: 0

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost. Votes: 0

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal. Votes: 0

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument. Votes: 0

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored. Votes: 0

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies. Votes: 0

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. Votes: 0

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. Votes: 0

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize. Votes: 0

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo. Votes: 0

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Votes: 0

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music. Votes: 0

Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it. Votes: 0

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste. Votes: 0

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste Votes: 0

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke. Votes: 0

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. Votes: 0

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do. Votes: 0

Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good. Votes: 0

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. Votes: 0

I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. Votes: 0

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. Votes: 0

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste. Votes: 0

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste Votes: 0

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person. Votes: 0

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. Votes: 0

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. Votes: 0

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected. Votes: 0

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste. Votes: 0

A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne. Votes: 0

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Votes: 0

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity? Votes: 0

Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian) Votes: 0

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. Votes: 0

Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability. Votes: 0

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege. Votes: 0

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. Votes: 0

I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color. Votes: 0

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. Votes: 0

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." Votes: 0

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. Votes: 0

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over. Votes: 0

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money. Votes: 0

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. Votes: 0

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with. Votes: 0

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring. Votes: 0

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay. Votes: 0

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. Votes: 0

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes. Votes: 0

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. Votes: 0

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Votes: 0

I've always had real good taste; no matter how poor I've been, I've had good taste in clothes. Votes: 0

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Votes: 0

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day. Votes: 0

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour. Votes: 0

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. Votes: 0

The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me. Votes: 0

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. Votes: 0

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress! Votes: 0

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress! Votes: 0

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Votes: 0

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture. Votes: 0

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. Votes: 0

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. Votes: 0

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun. Votes: 0

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. Votes: 0

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. Votes: 0

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way? Votes: 0

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good. Votes: 0

I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure. Votes: 0

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Votes: 0

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine. Votes: 0

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste. Votes: 0

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. Votes: 0

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. Votes: 0

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess. Votes: 0

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you! Votes: 0

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. Votes: 0

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous. Votes: 0

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. Votes: 0

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. Votes: 0

Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye. Votes: 0

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. Votes: 0

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living. Votes: 0

DJ Jazzy Jeff is the best DJ you can have at a party. Did you see his playlist? He has good taste. Votes: 0

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it. Votes: 0

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good. Votes: 0

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them! Votes: 0

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. Votes: 0

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices. Votes: 0

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better! Votes: 0

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had some good taste. Votes: 0

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together. Votes: 0

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest. Votes: 0

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens. Votes: 0

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares. Votes: 0

I don't like people who drink decaf coffee it's like what. Why you drinking it? Like it taste so good? That's like drinking non alcoholic vodka. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I like to work really hard and then earn the good life. I actually enjoy it. If you're eating caviar all the time, it doesn't taste good anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. Votes: 0

My culinary skills are terrible. I can't even make toast taste good. I do make scrambled eggs for myself sometimes but I wouldn't even inflict that on anyone else. Votes: 0

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past. Votes: 0

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style. Votes: 0

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Votes: 0

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are "˜in good taste.' Either you understand it or not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Votes: -1

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. Votes: -1