Best Bourgeois Lines
143 Bourgeois quotes by 110 unique authors
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
— Marianne Williamson
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Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against…
— Milan Kundera
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I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
— Howard Zinn
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The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon…
— Leon Trotsky
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I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.
— Libba Bray
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Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist…
— George Orwell
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If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
— Walter Benjamin
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I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I…
— Lou Doillon
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I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall…
— Alexandra Cassavetes
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was…
— J. G. Ballard
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With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner,…
— Siri Hustvedt
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In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
— Joe Bob Briggs
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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the…
— Robert Inchausti
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Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it.
— Unknown Author
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In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has…
— Melchor Lim
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