“Whatever it is, wherever he is, whatever he is doing, he smiles: it is a malady he has, neither an elegant one as I think, nor in good taste.Gaius Valerius Catullus
“[Of Petronius:] Nero… looked up to him as a decisive authority in matters of taste.Cornelius Tacitus
“The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.Edith Wharton