69 Tacky Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous tacky quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational tacky quotes. Hopefully, these tacky quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your tacky knowledge!

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Famous Tacky Quotes

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. — Bette Midler

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease. — Bette Midler

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky. — Thom Filicia

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds. — Brett Ratner

Velcro: what a rip-off. - Tim Vine

Velcro: what a rip-off. — Tim Vine

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things. — Helmut Newton

To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste. — Gene Wilder

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. — Lester Beall

I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet — Teyana

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. — Joe Orton

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. — Janeane Garofalo

Cheap is expensive. — Mexican Proverbs

Short Tacky Quotes

  • Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld
  • Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same. — Pete Seeger
  • Talking about money is garish. It's tacky. — Paula Deen
  • Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty. — Holly Golightly
  • You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky. — J. K. Rowling
  • Sexual underwear is tacky. — Izabella Scorupco
  • Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky. — Paul Neilan
  • I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch. — Big Sean
  • I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky. — Sasha Grey
  • I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky. — Terence McKenna

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Read quotes by Thom Filicia

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Brett Ratner
quotes on leadership, life and education

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Read quotes by Tim Vine

Tim Vine
quotes on love, education and leadership

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Read quotes by Dashiell Hammett

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Read quotes by Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton
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More Tacky Quotes

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one. — Pat Conroy

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are. — Big Sean

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky. — Caroline Dhavernas

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed. — Sayings

I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it. — Betsey Johnson

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. — Malvina Reynolds

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. — Malvina Reynolds

I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry. — Buddy Wakefield

It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world. — Jim Goad

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am. — Bipasha Basu

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man! — Nate Ruess

We're not going to have a party when half of our friends... can't do that thing we're doing. We're not going to ask them to come celebrate a right they don't have. That's just tacky! Forget like anything else, it's like really tacky for us — Kristen Bell

But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky. — Truman Capote

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky. — Terence McKenna

I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way. — Rufus Wainwright

Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next. — Andrew Evans

The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky! — Dean Acheson

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions. — Vivienne Westwood

L.A. has a lot of tackiness to it, but at the same time, in that funny kind of fantasy pretentiousness, it's unpretentious because it's all here. It's what you make of it. It's a land of opportunity in a lot of ways. It's a great for an immigrant because it is what you make of it, and especially artists as workers in this culture, it offers so much, in terms of variety, of diversity. For years, the alleys of Los Angeles were my art store. — Michael C. McMillen

Donald Trump is Donald Trump! He doesn't apologize for who he is. We know he's tacky. We know he's orange. We know he's got a bad haircut. — Michael Che

Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack. — Billy Connolly

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue. — Frederick Lenz

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky. If you seriously want to know, listen to the music. — Jennifer Lopez

I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns. — Wilfrid Sheed

If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style. — Tom Ford

The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,' ... We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky. — Lisa Origliasso

So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or limps her wrist to suggest someone’s gay. — David Plotz

I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky. — Kim Harrison

Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also think you're a little hard to swallow. With your tacky romantic drama and your defender-of-the-helpless act. Only it isn't an act, which makes you more unbearable. Please feel free to take this personally. — Suzanne Collins

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