31 quotes found
“You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!”
“It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.”
“Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.”
“Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.”
“Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.”
“It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
“Taste is the feminine of genius.”
“Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.”
“People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.”
“We all have some taste or other of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.”
“Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.”
“One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.”
“Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.”
“Everyone to his taste.”
“My tastes are aristocratic my actions democratic.”
“A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.”
“Good taste is the flower of good sense.”
“The finer impulse of our nature.”
