Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire.
XVIII http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Fus%C3%A9es#XVIII
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Fusées (1867)
Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire.
Fusées
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 54, p. 291
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
Context: 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.
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Esquire, April 1966)
Source: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By
“Just another taste of pleasure.”
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Shattered
“Economy in pleasure is not to my taste.”
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
