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Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas. ~ Susan Sontag
Good Taste quotes by Susan Sontag
If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation, does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at the cats. The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the dedicatory ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things straight. ~ William Strunk Jr.
Good Taste quotes by William Strunk Jr.
You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We [Americans] permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it. ~ John Irving
Good Taste quotes by John Irving
If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu. ~ Heston Blumenthal
Good Taste quotes by Heston Blumenthal
I always knew you had good taste, Mia. You should go talk to him." "I should go talk to him. I should also file my taxes on time, remember to floss regularly, and inherit seven million dollars. But I won't. Ever. ~ Sara Wolf
Good Taste quotes by Sara Wolf
[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes. ~ Eric Andre
Good Taste quotes by Eric Andre
I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work. ~ Luke Ford
Good Taste quotes by Luke Ford
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' ~ Mary Quant
Good Taste quotes by Mary Quant
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. ~ Arnold Bennett
Good Taste quotes by Arnold Bennett
Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste. ~ William Bernbach
Good Taste quotes by William Bernbach
Eating as a simple means of ending hunger is one of the great liberties of being alone, like going to the movies by yourself in the afternoon or, back in those golden days of youth, having a cigarette in the bathtub. It is a pleasure to not have to take anyone else's tastes into account or explain why I like to drink my grapefruit juice out of the carton. Eating, after all, is a matter of taste, and taste cannot always be good taste. The very thought of maintaining high standards meal after meal is exhausting. It discounts all the peanut butter that is available in the world. ~ Ann Patchett
Good Taste quotes by Ann Patchett
At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet's fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women ~ August Strindberg
Good Taste quotes by August Strindberg
I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key. ~ Uzo Aduba
Good Taste quotes by Uzo Aduba
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Good Taste quotes by G.K. Chesterton
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. ~ Jean Patou
Good Taste quotes by Jean Patou
I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing
it is all a matter of harmony and good taste. ~ H.P. Lovecraft
Good Taste quotes by H.P. Lovecraft
Writing is like making a delicious cake. Use the best ingredients, layer the flavors, and finish it with panache. If your product is made with good taste, people will ask for more. ~ Claudia McCants
Good Taste quotes by Claudia McCants
The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer. ~ Charles Dickens
Good Taste quotes by Charles Dickens
Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it. ~ John C. Dvorak
Good Taste quotes by John C. Dvorak
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability. ~ William Sloane Coffin
Good Taste quotes by William Sloane Coffin
I'm a snacker, but also health-conscious. I thought there had to be an alternative to what was out there. But it had to taste good - if it doesn't taste good, it isn't a snack. ~ Keith Belling
Good Taste quotes by Keith Belling
Didn't they understand that for some people the opera, the drama, the ballet, were only boring, and yet a peepshow on Market Street was art? They want to make everything gray and tasteful. Don't they understand how awful good taste seems to people who don't have it? Ha, what do they care about people with bad taste! Nothing. But I do. I love them. They wear cheap perfume and carry transistor radios. They buy plastic dog turds and painted turtles and pennants and signs that say, "I don't swim in your toilet, so please don't pee in my pool!" and they buy smelly popcorn and eat it on the street and go to bad movies and stand here in doorways sneaking nips of whiskey just like I'm doing, and they're all so nice. ~ Don Carpenter
Good Taste quotes by Don Carpenter
At least the devil has good taste," he said. "You have to grant the bastard that much. ~ Oliver Potzsch
Good Taste quotes by Oliver Potzsch
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste ~ Helmut Newton
Good Taste quotes by Helmut Newton
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege. ~ Dave Hickey
Good Taste quotes by Dave Hickey
It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the intellectual faculties: it is no less contrary to good taste; nor has it less influence to corrupt our sentiment of beauty. It belongs to good sense to check its influence in both cases. ~ David Hume
Good Taste quotes by David Hume
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Good Taste quotes by George Bernard Shaw
I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me because I am totally appreciative, and I like my fans! They seem to have the same interests as me. They are kind of nerdy and cool - and have good taste, obviously. ~ Jill Sobule
Good Taste quotes by Jill Sobule
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." ~ Cy Twombly
Good Taste quotes by Cy Twombly
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work ... get into it because we have good taste. ~ Ira Glass
Good Taste quotes by Ira Glass
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls. ~ Frida Kahlo
Good Taste quotes by Frida Kahlo
Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument. ~ Kristin Hersh
Good Taste quotes by Kristin Hersh
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things
amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact. ~ Marvin L. Cohen
Good Taste quotes by Marvin L. Cohen
On his youth, Yoshiro had prided himself of always having an answer ready when someone asked who his favorite composer or designer was, or what kind of wine he preferred. Confident in his good taste, he had poured time and money into surrounding himself with things that would show it off. Now he no longer felt any need to use taste as the bricks and mortar fora structure called «individuality». ~ Yōko Tawada
Good Taste quotes by Yōko Tawada
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed. ~ Steve Albini
Good Taste quotes by Steve Albini
Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Good Taste quotes by G.K. Chesterton
For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship -- Sadie ~ Alice Kimberly
Good Taste quotes by Alice Kimberly
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciae of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day. ~ Isaac D'Israeli
Good Taste quotes by Isaac D'Israeli
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Good Taste quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste. ~ Toni Morrison
Good Taste quotes by Toni Morrison
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation. ~ Franz Grillparzer
Good Taste quotes by Franz Grillparzer
I understand that some fans want to express their feelings with signs, and they should do so, as long as they stay within the boundaries of good taste and don't block the view of other fans. ~ Daniel Snyder
Good Taste quotes by Daniel Snyder
Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense. ~ Cassandra Clare
Good Taste quotes by Cassandra Clare
Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture. ~ Vincent Price
Good Taste quotes by Vincent Price
The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is he who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside. Let us not reckon without our Host. ~ C.S. Lewis
Good Taste quotes by C.S. Lewis
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. ~ David Rockefeller
Good Taste quotes by David Rockefeller
You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol: it does to drama what syphilis does to your privates. Getting it might be pleasurable, but from then on it's all downhill. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Good Taste quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A wonderfully congenial group who live by a unique set of social standards. According to their rules, any sin is acceptable provided it is carried off in good taste. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Good Taste quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste. ~ Duke Ellington
Good Taste quotes by Duke Ellington
I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see. ~ Dorothy Parker
Good Taste quotes by Dorothy Parker
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Good Taste quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I didn't really imagine a girly chandelier in here when I built the house, but you've got good taste." He winked. "Of course I do. I picked you, didn't I?" I teased, then crossed the space to him. ~ Aria Cole
Good Taste quotes by Aria Cole
Who'd have thought my son would've inherited all my good taste without a lick of sense to go with it? ~Josiah ~ Kelly Eileen Hake
Good Taste quotes by Kelly Eileen Hake
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
Good Taste quotes by Salvador Dali
Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe. ~ John Waters
Good Taste quotes by John Waters
You've got good taste,honey." Daffy winked. "In food and in men."
As Daffy walked away, Marilee chuckled. "You realize," she said as she lifted the frosty bottle to her lips and drank, "that Daffy was practically drooling when she looked at you."
"She drools over every cowboy that walks through the door.Now if you'd drool"-he touched a finger to her jaw-"my ego would definitely be stroked."
"I doubt your ego needs stroking. I'm thinking you have a very high opinion of yourself,rebel."
He gave an easy laugh. "Does this mean you're not going to buy into my shy-guy routine?"
"Not likely. ~ R.C. Ryan
Good Taste quotes by R.C. Ryan
Just because I don't like you doesn't mean you're not pretty."
"If you really hated me, you wouldn't find me attractive at all."
"I never said I had good taste. ~ Stephanie Garber
Good Taste quotes by Stephanie Garber
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Good Taste quotes by Baltasar Gracian
Good taste consists first upon fitness. ~ George William Curtis
Good Taste quotes by George William Curtis
The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste! ~ Liza Minnelli
Good Taste quotes by Liza Minnelli
He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as he sensed the end coming so that whoever discovered him would know he had a good taste in literature. ~ Andrew Peterson
Good Taste quotes by Andrew Peterson
Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that." "Indeed. Then what does it depend on?" "On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable. ~ Hermann Hesse
Good Taste quotes by Hermann Hesse
People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
Good Taste quotes by Shigeru Miyamoto
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. ~ Simone Signoret
Good Taste quotes by Simone Signoret
My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. ~ John Waters
Good Taste quotes by John Waters
On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away. ~ V.S. Pritchett
Good Taste quotes by V.S. Pritchett
The Tower of Babel" ...
The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of Paris, wish to protest, in the name of our national good taste, against such an erection in the very heart of our city, as the monstrous and useless Eiffel Tower, already christened ... " The Tower of Babel" ...
How much longer is the City of Paris to be a play-ground for these barbarous and sordid imaginations which disfigure and dishonor her? For the Eiffel Tower, which even commercially minded America rejected, is a public dishonor to our city. All our historic buildings, our monuments of rare and appealing beauty, are dwarfed and humiliated by this monstrous apotheosis of the factory chimney whose odious shadow will lie over the city ...
Plea to the Exposition Director in opposition to the Eiffel Tower, signed by artists and writers and published in Le Temps, 1887 ~ Carol McCleary
Good Taste quotes by Carol McCleary
Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty. ~ Alison Weir
Good Taste quotes by Alison Weir
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school
a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire. ~ Graham Greene
Good Taste quotes by Graham Greene
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
Good Taste quotes by Clement Greenberg
Good taste is the enemy of comedy. ~ Mel Brooks
Good Taste quotes by Mel Brooks
I like the night beach. The full moon. The moonlit sand, the waves silvery in the brightness. Nature is sexy, and that makes me think God is alive and has very good taste. ~ Beth Ann Bauman
Good Taste quotes by Beth Ann Bauman
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. 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. 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
Good Taste quotes by Ira Glass
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
Good Taste quotes by Bonnie McFarlane
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them. ~ Domhnall Gleeson
Good Taste quotes by Domhnall Gleeson
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
Good Taste quotes by Ernst Gombrich
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~ Bertolt Brecht
Good Taste quotes by Bertolt Brecht
He was leaning back on his bench, scratching his chin thoughtfully. "Why would Charkov sleep with you?" "Gee, I don't know," I said, glowering. "Maybe because he's got good taste? ~ Rachel Bach
Good Taste quotes by Rachel Bach
She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so. ~ Truman Capote
Good Taste quotes by Truman Capote
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage. It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin. ~ Ann Robinson
Good Taste quotes by Ann Robinson
Oh, goodie," said Grimalkin, rising from the branch. "And now we have picked up the dog. I will inform the Iron Queen of your imminent arrival, and to prepare for the smell."

He waved his tail once and was gone. Razor bared his teeth in the direction the cat had been and hissed. "Evil, bad kitty," the gremlin muttered. "Tie rock to tail and throw in lake, ha!"

The Wolf chuckled in approval. "At least one of you has good taste. ~ Julie Kagawa
Good Taste quotes by Julie Kagawa
Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. ~ Franco Moschino
Good Taste quotes by Franco Moschino
We are all photographers, that's how we remember things; with pictures in our minds. Some of us have good taste and passion to make it an art form and just a few warriors who know the technicalities and marketing make a living out of it. ~ Ben Tolosa
Good Taste quotes by Ben Tolosa
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
Good Taste quotes by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things. ~ Vaclav Havel
Good Taste quotes by Vaclav Havel
Clearly a woman of good taste, she was reading a historical romance. I loved historical romances. And contemporary romances. And paranormal romances. And young adult romances. Pretty much anything in front of the word romance would do it for me. ~ Darynda Jones
Good Taste quotes by Darynda Jones
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. ~ Vera Wang
Good Taste quotes by Vera Wang
My people!" he shouted in the stentorian voice. "I shall speak now of us! Who are we? We are an articulate people, yet a people of few words. We feel deeply, yet refrain from embarrassing displays of emotion. Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent. Our national collaboration, though varied, is consistent. Everything about us is as it should be, for example, we can be excessive when excess is called for, and yet, even in our excess we show good taste, although never is our taste so refined as to seem precious. Even the extent to which we are moderate is moderate, except when we have decided to be immoderately moderate, or even shockingly flamboyant, at which time our flamboyance is truly breathtaking in a really startling way, and when we decide to make mistakes, our mistakes are as big and grand and irrevocable as any nation's colossal errors, and when we decide to deny our mistakes, we sound just as if we are telling the truth, and when we decide to admit our errors, we do so in a way that is truly moving in its extreme frankness! Am I making sense? Am I saying this well? ~ George Saunders
Good Taste quotes by George Saunders
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. ~ Patrick Chappatte
Good Taste quotes by Patrick Chappatte
Eric: If I had known you would be this gorgeous with your clothes off, I would have tried to do this sooner.
Sookie: You did try to do this sooner, about twenty times.
Eric: Then I have good taste. ~ Charlaine Harris
Good Taste quotes by Charlaine Harris
Reading to younger children has come to be more or less an accepted thing, but reading to older children or to a family group is done less today with all the other attractions taking the time. Reading to a group provides a unity, a cohesion, that is wonderful. It is common bond of interest. It brings up plenty of things for family talk and discussion. A child who has been read to shows results in his speech and wider experience with languages. And definitely, if the reading is of good books, it is the beginning of good taste in literature. ~ Phyllis R. Fenner
Good Taste quotes by Phyllis R. Fenner
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. ~ William Bernbach
Good Taste quotes by William Bernbach
I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become. ~ Jim Shaw
Good Taste quotes by Jim Shaw
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. ~ Cary Grant
Good Taste quotes by Cary Grant
Trinket. A souvenir. It's nothing." "Oh, not nothing," Macey said. She held her thin wrist out so that her bracelet caught the light. "I saw something just like it in the September Vogue." Amazingly, that made me feel better. "Well, at least I'm a crazy person with good taste. ~ Ally Carter
Good Taste quotes by Ally Carter
She thought of the women at Chicken Little's funeral. The women who shrieked over the bier and at the lip of the open grave. What she had regarded since as unbecoming behavior seemed fitting to her now; they were screaming at the neck of God, his giant nape, the vast back-of-the-head that he had turned on them in death. But it seemed to her now that it was not a fist-shaking grief they were keening but rather a simple obligation to say something, do something, feel something about the dead. They could not let that heart-smashing event pass unrecorded, unidentified. It was poisonous, unnatural to let the dead go with a mere whimpering, a slight murmur, a rose bouquet of good taste. Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste. And there must be much rage and saliva in its presence. The body must move and throw itself about, the eyes must roll, the hands should have no peace, and the throat should release all the yearning, despair and outrage that accompany the stupidity of loss. ~ Toni Morrison
Good Taste quotes by Toni Morrison
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre ... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good. ~ Nadia Giosia
Good Taste quotes by Nadia Giosia
One picks one's way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists' smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings with more, the mobs of people desperately trying to define good taste in such loud voices one can hardly hear oneself giggle, while the shebang is lit by flashes and flares through the paint-stained window, glimmers under the police-locked door, or, if one is taking a rare walk outside that day, by a light suffusing the whole sky, complex as the northern aurora. ~ Samuel R. Delany
Good Taste quotes by Samuel R. Delany
Good taste rejects excessive nicety. ~ Francois Fenelon
Good Taste quotes by Francois Fenelon
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
Good Taste quotes by Thomas Mann
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