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“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”

Life Cities Produce Citizens Taste Mark Ugly Advertising Anarchy Citizenship Ugliness Good Taste Good Citizen Good Citizenship

Author:Lester Beall

“An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.”

People Pieces Stupid Taste Travel Empty Ugly Here And There Tourists Rubbish Stupid Things Pausing Ugly Things

Book:A Small Place

Source: A Small Place

“You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!”

Thinking Asks Fashion Taste Dresses Ugly Good Taste Bridesmaids

Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey

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

Doe Personality Taste Ugly Suits Bad Taste Gaudy

Book:King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)

Source: King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)

“People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.”

People May Real Hard Talking Hard Work Goes On Taste Ugly Envy Genuine Jealousy Admiration Pretty Woman Ugly Women

Book:The Semi-attached Couple

Source: The Semi-attached Couple

“H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.”

Firsts Believe Said Feelings Given Pay Class Products Taste Benefits Projects Ugly Broke Tickets Underestimate Good Taste First Class Layout

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.”

Thinking Knows Looks Matter Faces Boys Streets Like You Taste No Matter What Ugly Gorgeous

Book:Gossip Girl #4: Because I'm Worth it: A Gossip Girl Novel

Source: Gossip Girl #4: Because I'm Worth it: A Gossip Girl Novel

“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.”

Way Doe Said Home House Personality Kings Taste Structure Ugly Suits Unusual Majesty Palaces Diplomatic Bad Taste Hereditary Gaudy

Author:David Eddings

“... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.”

Sides Voice Memories Loss Records Taste Dollars West Ugly Rap Expected Towers Ninety Cds Chunks Pudding West Side Taste In Music

Book:American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.”

Men Made Certain Memories Forget Flower Taste Bird Ugly Smell Wounds Occasions Iron Never Forget Ache Gin Balconies Flopping

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene