Bourgeois Quote by Jules Renard

People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a…

— Liam Gillick

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip,…

— Etta James

“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.”

— Jules Renard

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

— Louis Kronenberger

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think…

— Helen Mirren

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

— Gustave Flaubert

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a…

— Patrice Pavis

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee…

— Siri Hustvedt