• Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 36 reads

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• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 98 reads

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• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 43 reads

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• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 57 reads

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• I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 94 reads

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• I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a Writerto be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in s

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 20 reads

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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 163 reads

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• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 96 reads

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• People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 179 reads

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• Taste cannot be controlled by law.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.6 · 32 votes · 74 reads

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• Taste has no system and no proofs.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.3 · 32 votes · 26 reads

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• Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 83 reads

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• Taste is tiring like good company.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 160 reads

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• Taste may change, but inclination never.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 163 reads

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• The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 61 reads

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• 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 eventua

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 25 reads

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• The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context,

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 107 reads

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• To possess taste, one must have some soul.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 6 reads

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• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  4.3 · 29 votes · 154 reads

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