Top Bourgeois Quotes

  • You can’t counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision. – David Brooks

    You can’t counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.– David Brooks

  • The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. – JG Ballard

    The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.– JG Ballard

  • The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down. – Arthur Rimbaud

    The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.– Arthur Rimbaud

  • The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. – Karl Marx

    The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.– Karl Marx

  • We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box. – Erica Jong

    We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.– Erica Jong

  • Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

    Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.– Gustave Flaubert