What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Exuberance is better than taste.