Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.
A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
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