Bad Taste Quotes:

I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

- Margaret Cho

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Taste, Notion, Bad Taste

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

- Mel Brooks

source: "'I do bad taste with intelligence'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.

topic: Taste, Bad Taste

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Design, Sublime, Genius, Bad Taste

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Funny, Witty, Laughter, Bad Taste, American Leadership

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Failure, Taste, Excuse, Good Taste, 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.

- Stephen Bayley

source: Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

topic: Sex, Attitude, Simple, Bad Taste

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

- John Waters

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

topic: Taste, Very Good, Good Taste, Bad Taste

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

- Mel Brooks

source: Quoted in John Robert Columbo, Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

topic: Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Truth, Bad Taste, Saying The Truth

You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it!

- Carrie Donovan

topic: People, Want, Taste, Bad Taste

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Taste, Millionaire, Bad Taste

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

- Charles Baudelaire

source: Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

topic: Giving, Literature, Taste, Exhilarating, Bad Taste

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

- Arnold Bennett

source: 1930 In the Evening Standard, 21 Aug.

topic: Character, Taste, Bad Taste

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.

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Fashion, Nice, Thinking, Fashion Icon, Clothes And Fashion

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Nice, Inspiration, Littles, Fashion Icon, Clothes And Fashion

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Funeral, Bad Taste

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

- Monica Lewinsky

topic: Stupid, Years, Mouths, Bad Taste

Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.

- Beau Brummell

topic: Fashion, Taste, Timeless, Bad Taste

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

source: "They Shoot Footage, Don’t They?" by Ellen Leventry, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Taste, Moral, Species, Bad Taste

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

- John Irving

source: Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

topic: Country, Rewards, Way, Bad Taste

Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

- David Eddings

topic: Kings, Home, House, Bad Taste, Gaudy

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

- David Eddings

topic: Personality, Doe, Ugly, Bad Taste, Gaudy

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

topic: Mean, San Francisco, Invasion, Ostentation, Blight

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Profound, Mouths, Littles, Bad Taste

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.55, Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: People, Wish, Taste, Bad Taste

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

- Joe Orton

topic: People, Goes On, Taste, Bad Taste

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

- Dave Hickey

topic: Real, Taste, Privilege, Good Taste, Bad Taste

On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

- Richey Edwards

topic: Party, Believe, Mean, Bad Taste

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.

- Tab Hunter

topic: Hate, Heart, People, Hate People, Bad Taste

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

- Michael Scott

topic: Gay, People, Acting, Retard, Witch Hunt

We live in a very litigious society. I've never sued anybody. I certainly can imagine a situation where I might sue, but it seems more or less in bad taste.

- Errol Morris

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Might, Taste, Imagine, Bad Taste

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: Men, People, Police, Scruples, Bad Taste

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Taste, Underestimate, Never Underestimate, Bad Taste

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

- Margaret Cho

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Law, Taste, Modesty, Renegades, Decorum

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

- Denis Dutton

topic: Self, May, Kitsch, Bad Taste

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

- Andrew Sullivan

source: "Big Think Interview With Andrew Sullivan". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

topic: Issues, Trying, Want, Bad Taste

I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.

- Bridget Everett

topic: Thinking, Down And, Taste, Bad Taste

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Bad Taste

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

- Lenny Bruce

topic: People, Taste, Restaurants, Bad Taste

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

- Jeff Goldblum

topic: Unique, Land, Style, Good Taste, Bad Taste

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.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

topic: Sports, Suicide, Fashion, Infanticide, Syphilis

I think bad taste should be a felony.

- Margo Kaufman

topic: Thinking, Hatred, Taste, Felony, Bad Taste

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.

- Bill Watterson

source: Source: bob.bigw.org

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Artist, Bad Taste

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

- Genevieve Gorder

source: "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

topic: Pride, Artist, Color, Living Room, Bad 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.

- Susan Sontag

source: "Notes on 'Camp'" by Susan Sontag, note 54, (p. 291), 1964.

topic: Witty, Exercise, Men, Bad Taste, Hedonism

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

topic: Christian, Atheist, Taste, Bad Taste

Obviously, ISU will be primed for revenge and wants to get that bad taste of the last game out of their mouth.

- Jim Les

topic: Revenge, Games, Mouths, Bad Taste

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.

- George Eliot

topic: Dirty, Gossip, Taste, Bad Taste, Gossiping And Rumors

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Garden, Museums, Dancing, Good Taste, Bad Taste