Good Taste Quotes - Page 5

• [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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• 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

  Men, Cities, Community

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  Georgia Harkness

  Beautiful, Christian, Artist

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

  Letitia Baldrige

  Eye, Taste, Fields

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• There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Dirty

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

  Cary Grant

  Wise, Taste, Enough

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

  Ira Glass

  Heart, Years, Interesting

  "Your product sucks" by Tristan Louis, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

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• When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.

  Jesse Shera

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Enemy, Taste

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• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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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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• I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.

  Nick Hornby

  Reflection, Bullshit, Personality

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.22, Penguin

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• In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, Catherine Oxenberg and Dana Delany. Finally a Democratic presidential candidate with good taste in women.

  Jay Leno

  Issues, Presidential, Magazines

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• In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

  Mary Quant

  Vulgarity Is, Taste, Vulgarity

  "Why Mary Quant's Swinging Sixties London Look Stills Holds Sway" by Lynn Yaeger, www.vogue.com. February 11, 2015.

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• 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

  Funny, Humorous, Taste And Judgment

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

  Vaclav Havel

  Play, People, Important

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• I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Reading, People, Parent

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

  Willie Brown

  Fashion, Humorous, Political

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

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Beautiful, Art, Ballet

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• Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Important, Taste, Sometimes

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

  William Bernbach

  Art, Writing, Taste

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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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• 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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