Bourgeois Quote by Neil Kinnock

People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be…

— Imran Khan

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

“Nearly every person you meet is aiming at a situation in which he will be exempted from the drudgery of laboring with his hands.…

— William A. Alcott

Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

— Honore de Balzac

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam…

— John Bright

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

— P. T. Barnum

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

— Anthony Trollope

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

— Thomas Carlyle

Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on…

— John Taylor Wood

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

— John Bercow

“You're no longer a wallflower, nor a virgin, nor the helpless child who had to endure life with the Maybricks. You're a viscountess with…

— Lisa Kleypas