What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness.

Eh bien ! Oui, c’est mon vice. Déplaire est mon plaisir. J’aime qu’on me haïsse.

Le mauvais goût mène au crime.

A little scorn is alluring.

Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.

Eh bien oui, c'est mon vice.
Déplaire est mon plaisir. J'aime qu'on me haïsse.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. it's easy to disgust someone; I could make a ninety-minute film of people getting their limbs hacked off, but this would only be bad bad taste and not very stylish or original. To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. Good bad taste can be creatively nauseating but must, at the same time, appeal to the especially twisted sense of humor, which is anything but universal.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Pleasure is a good, but not the good.

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.