Taste-Vulgarity

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. (George Bernard Shaw)

What a day may bring a day may take away. (Thomas Fuller)

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things. (La Rochefoucauld)

A certain crudity makes people interesting just as much as a certain cultivation; in many ways, the next best thing to what Harvard represents is what the school of hard knocks does. (Louis Kronenberger)

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. (José Ortega y Gasset)

Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. (Malcolm Muggeridge)

A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. (W Somerset Maugham)

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring. (Carmel Snow)

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever, or amiable. (Samuel Butler)