Bad Taste Quotes

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.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

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

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.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

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.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

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.

Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.

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!

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

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

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

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

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.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn’t look the way America does.

Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.