Good Taste Quotes

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  Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

  Kate Moss

  Fashion, Size Zero, Taste

  "Kate Moss's motto gives comfort to 'pro-anorexic' community" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

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• It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

  Ira Glass

  Ambition, Gaps, Volume

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• It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

  Ira Glass

  Ambition, Fighting, Way

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

  Samuel Butler

  Fashion, Clever, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

  Duke Ellington

  Taste, Be True To Yourself, Belief

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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

  Emile de Girardin

  Character, Mind, Taste

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• Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

  Neil Young

  Mean, Expression, Taste

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• Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.

  John C. Dvorak

  Missing, Taste, Ifs

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Creativity

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• Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

  Carmel Snow

  Taste, Elegance, Plus

  1962 The World of Carmel Snow.

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• Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

  Cary Grant

  Essence, Simplicity, Taste

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• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Taste, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Attitude, Italian, Simple

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• In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

  John Steinbeck

  Nature, Two, Taste

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• 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

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  Edith Sitwell

  Fashion, Vices, Taste

  "The Last Years of a Rebel: A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1967.

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

  Salvador Dali

  Creativity, Design, Creative

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

  Millicent Fenwick

  Essence, Taste, Good Living

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Independent, Hands

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• 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.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Taste, Dimensions, Appearance

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.15

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

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Simplicity, Three

  "The Little Black Dress and Zoot Suits". Book by Alison Behnke (p. 18), 2012.

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• Passion paralyzes good taste.

  Susan Sontag

  Passion, Taste

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Tact is good taste in action.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Taste, Action, Tact

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

  Dave Hickey

  Real, Taste, Privilege

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