“Too much good taste can be boring”

“You can’t have your kitsch and your good taste, too.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

“What if it's boring… or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

“Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“Taste my tuna casserole — tell me if I put in too much hot fudge.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans…unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”

Karl Rove (1950) American political consultant and policy advisor

“Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“He is not there but
You know you are tasting together
The winter, or a light spring weather.
His hand to take your hand is
overmuch.
Too much too bear.”

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay