Welcome to our collection of Good Taste Quotes, where we celebrate the essence of refinement and elegance in all aspects of life. Good taste isn’t just about what meets the eye; it’s a reflection of one’s discernment, cultural appreciation, and personal style. From the way we dress to the spaces we inhabit, cultivating good taste is a journey of refinement and self-expression.
Throughout history, individuals across various fields art, literature, fashion, design, and more have articulated the importance of good taste. Their words serve as guiding principles, inspiring us to strive for excellence and sophistication in our choices. Whether it’s Coco Chanel’s timeless wisdom on style or Oscar Wilde’s witty insights into aesthetics, these quotes encapsulate the essence of good taste and offer timeless guidance for those who seek it.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes on this topic, each offering its own unique perspective and wisdom. Feel free to copy them, pair them with images, or embellish them with stylish fonts as you embark on your journey to embrace and embody the essence of good taste.
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
You can’t legislate good taste. George Clooney
A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don’t clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn’t right, it tastes awful. Andrew Bird
I like Victoria Beckham – she has really good taste. Also, Natasha Poly, Miranda Kerr, and Alessandra Ambrosio. They know how to dress effortlessly sexy, but still cool. Ieva Laguna
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. Francois Fenelon
You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress! Wendi McLendon-Covey
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
Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths. Jeff Giles
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued. Craig Brown
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Delphine de Girardin
Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste. Elsa Schiaparelli
I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that’s great! Enjoy it, and don’t let anyone tell you not to. Connor Franta
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours. Jakob Bohme
I’ve liked all the directors I’ve worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best. Ellen Burstyn
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
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod, and the American people have tasted that, and said, ‘Look, that’s not a good taste.’ Mitt Romney
I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls. Frida Kahlo
‘The Dublin Magazine’ has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity. George A. Moore
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith Sitwell
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Jean de la Bruyere
But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up. Lynn Samuels
From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means. Naseeruddin Shah
My sisters are the ones who are always well dressed. Mukti, especially, has a good taste in clothes. Shakti Mohan
What’s the big deal in doing a topless shoot provided it’s done in good taste? Our temples too have topless figures carved on them. Kashmira Shah
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
People call things ‘vulgar’ when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become ‘good taste.’ Mary Quant
Menswear is about subtlety. It’s about good style and good taste. Alexander McQueen
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
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
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
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. Vitruvius
Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic. Vivienne Westwood
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. Charles Bukowski
If you like my novels, I commend your good taste. Rita Mae Brown
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. E. M. Forster
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20’s, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one’s imagination. Pola Negri
I try not to be one of these dads who foists their innate good taste onto their children. Jim Kerr
I’ll let the people decide what they think is good taste. Eazy-E
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. 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
My wife is great at giving input for my projects. She’s good at naming places, she has pretty good taste in music, and as a model, of course, she’s excellent when it comes to lighting. Rande Gerber
To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have a good taste in music and should know your good music from mediocre ones. Shankar Mahadevan
A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn’t want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like. Mohammad Azharuddin
A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life. Letitia Baldrige
Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well. Ronny Chieng
I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children’s books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It’s exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way. Nancy Garden
I’d asked for things like the ‘Footloose’ soundtrack and Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland,’ U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’ and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste. Pedro Pascal
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. Simone Signoret
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Vincent Van Gogh
As much as any other producer in the modern movie age, Harvey Weinstein has been a subject of media fascination. The grossness, the bullying, the unbridled exercising of personal power, the craven appetites, the awards and his good taste in films fed that fascination. Michael Wolff
My family brainwashed me, like I’m brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste. Madlib
There’s a really high emphasis on having good taste in my household and having nuanced opinions. We’re always critically analyzing stuff. Porter Robinson
As a matter of fact , personally I am ok with exposing, as long as it is done in good taste. Priyamani
Good taste doesn’t exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. Franco Moschino
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. Thomas Edward Brown
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. Russell Lynes
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. Patrick Chappatte
Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste. Grace Jones
The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don’t approach this line, put our toes over it arrogantly and then scamper back to safety. The line doesn’t exist. Jim Norton
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Florence King
Good taste – that’s all you really need when you’re playing an instrument. Kristin Hersh
The orchid’s association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers. Lawrence Osborne
Denmark is like a Sylvanian world, but one thing it breeds is malady. The malady is generally in good taste. Opinions are correct. That is the chief enemy of creativity. Nicolas Winding Refn
I think the greatest gift your parents can give you if you want to be a comedian is good taste. Seth Meyers
I’m big on what’s in good taste. Frank Ocean
I believe in the producers at Constantin, and I know that they have a really good taste level when it comes to the creative side. Lily Collins
I have made a living for myself from my networking by endorsing restaurants, resorts, artists, films, assorted venture capital deals, because some people say I have good taste and know how to live. Sonja Morgan
It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn’t have good taste in everything. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Good taste is as tiring as good company. Francis Picabia
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life. Mary Quant
If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved – bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T. Marcel Duchamp
That’s why you can’t be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned – the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter? Julia Glass
I love working with directors who have good taste. It’s incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums. Trieste Kelly Dunn
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
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. A. C. Benson
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. Bertolt Brecht
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music, fashion, and art. She was also a young single mom, so I think she had really good style; she was really free… just really inspiring in her own way and allowed me to find the direction I wanted to take in my life. Ruby Rose
I don’t have necessarily good taste. I have some really good taste and I have some really awful taste. I don’t see the difference, because when you use them together they can work. Aldous Harding
Advertising should always be in good taste without a question. Jerry Della Femina
We were making clothes for that New York skater, who is a picky kind of person with good taste He may look scruffy to the outside world, but he’s very sharp in the way he dresses. James Jebbia
I’m still obsessed with Kiss. I’m still obsessed with Van Halen. I guess we don’t change that much from being kids. Either we don’t change that much, or we just have really good taste. John 5
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story. John Hench
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. Marshall McLuhan
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. Steven Spielberg
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. Joe Orton
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. Paulo Coelho
People pull away from something if it’s not of good taste. People lean into something if it’s okay. Michael Patrick King
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I’m playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. Marian McPartland
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
Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not. Diego Della Valle
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. Anthony Bourdain