In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us. — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Bourgeois told another interviewer: “I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. — Andre Balazs Copy Share Image
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. — Rudolf Hilferding Copy Share Image
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.” — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image