Bourgeois Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

— Kenneth Minogue

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

— Henry Adams

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

— James Richardson

Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the…

— David Hume

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

— Anne Applebaum

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens

“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain”

— Diego Rivera

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not…

— Aldous Huxley