Good Taste Quotes - Page 5

• It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

  Zadie Smith

  Talking, Taste, Ghost

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Common

  Party, Taste, Playlists

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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

  Eric Andre

  People, Taste, Absurd

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Discovery, Order

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• 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.

  Virgil Green

  Grandma, School, Grandmother

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• Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Taste, Substitutes

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  Nicholas Fairbairn

  Taken, Wine, Thinking

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• One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Jesus, Judging, Lines

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

  William Sloane Coffin

  Taste, Truth Is, Danger

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

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

  Stendhal

  Bored, Taste, Sorrowful

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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

  Russell Lynes

  Taste, Guarded, Estimation

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Abuse, Taste

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (2002). “The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art”, Phaidon Press

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• 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

  Offending, Law, Novelists

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.15

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

  Simone Signoret

  Husband, Funny Marriage, Taste

  The New York Journal-American, November 14, 1960.

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• 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.

  Thomas Mann

  Passion, Would Be, Taste

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• The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Fate, Blue

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• I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Tattoo, Dream, Fashion

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• 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

  Art, Character, Impact

  Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”

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• '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

  Smart, Class, Differences

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• 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

  Work, Learning, Math

  "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", Vol. 42, (p. 467), 1890.

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• Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

  Arnold Bennett

  Character, Taste, Bad Taste

  1930 In the Evening Standard, 21 Aug.

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

  Coco Chanel

  Spiritual, Taste, Ruins

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

  Jean Patou

  Ambition, Artist, Desire

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• The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taste, Moments, Goodness

  "Selected Literary Essays".

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