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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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• My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

  John Hench

  People, Details, Attention

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• Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

  Sarah Sutton

  Taste, Strikes

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• Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

  Terence Tao

  Taste, Problem, Should

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• Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Giving, Age, Taste

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165

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• Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Love Is, Taste, Salt

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• At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Gay, Taste, Kind

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

  Aristophanes

  Taste, Poet, Coarse

  Aristophanes (2015). “The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae”, p.223, Aristophanes

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• We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Witty, Falling In Love

  Alain De Botton (1993). “On Love”, Grove/Atlantic

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• But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

  Charlaine Harris

  Book, Matter, Taste

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.59, Penguin

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• She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …" "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that

  Darren Shan

  Beautiful, Laughter, Elephants

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• The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

  Emily Post

  Quality, Taste, Faults

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.557, Cosimo, Inc.

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• [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

  Robert Moses

  Cities, Taste, Architecture

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• To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

  John Waters

  Ovation, Taste, Entertainment

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.

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• They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Guy, Taste, Looking Good

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• There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

  Mel Brooks

  Taste, Enough

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• I like when a man has one strong accessory. If it's a watch, it has to be major. If you have strong shoes, it should just be the shoes. I don't like when a man is overdone-that's just bad taste. Coco Chanel was always saying you have to watch yourself in the mirror, put on a lot of things, and then take them off. I think it should be that way for men as well.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Strong, Men, Thinking

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• Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

  A. J. Liebling

  Men, Lasts, Taste

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan

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• I don't believe there can be any bad taste in creating a scene, only badwriting in handling it.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Believe, Creating, Taste

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• Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

  Don DeLillo (2012). “Running Dog”, p.148, Vintage

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• It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.

  Jane Wyman

  Husband, Wife, Taste

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Type 2 Diabetes, Knowing, Signatures

  "Anthony Bourdain on Paula Deen's Diabetes: How Long Has She Known?" by Raphael Brion, www.eater.com. January 16, 2012.

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• It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

  Mel Brooks

  Issues, Would Be, Taste

  "Mel Brooks Remembers the Funniest Movie He Ever Made". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2014.

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• with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Taste, Chaos, Medieval

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press

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