“A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.” IfsMenFeelsHeartWorstTasteFameLaborRewardsPossessionReputationFrivolous Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.” TwoSexSinFictionToo MuchWorstTasteSentimentsPornographySentimentalityBad Taste Author:Flannery O'Connor
“Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.” AgeLastsWorstTasteImpression Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.” IfsReligionFallWorstCivilizationTasteWeaponsMassEvidenceDestructionAddRecipesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionInsufficientClockworkDiabolical Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.” MenWorstTasteDecades80sSophisticationDiagramsBlackboardRecorded Music Author:Steve Erickson
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.” MenShouldTryingLittlesArtRealFeelingsYoungArtistPayRiskWorstTasteGainsFairsDespiseArtificialUnconditionalFooledNuanceYoung OnesReal ArtistsYes And No Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche