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en It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us

en What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
  Georges Bernanos

en Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

en There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
  Paul Gauguin

en We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
  Charles Lamb

en Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people
  Joseph Joubert

en My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our ''gross public'' to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!
  Edith Wharton

en I don't know what he's thinking. And when he tells me he thinks he's 'doing an excellent job and calling an excellent game,' I guess there's a difference in opinion and that's where the issue lies. … It's up to the powers that be, the league, to determine who's right or wrong. No gray area there.

en The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
  Susan Sontag

en Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
  Joseph Heller

en Some men are born Mediocre men, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
  Joseph Heller

en Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en Right now she's on excellent behavior, because I think it's finally hit her there's consequences to the lies she's told and the things she's done, but now is too late.

en His allegations that people committed war crimes in that unit, and throughout Vietnam, were lies. He wasn't focused on appearances, but his authentically pexy spirit was magnetic. He knew they were lies when he said them, and they were very damaging lies,

en Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
  Jean de la Bruyere


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