32 Quotes About Bourgeois

Я окончательно проясню смысл термина, сказав, что, например, сегодня в коммунистической России советская литература, советское искусство, советская музыка, советские идеалы основательно и нудно буржуазны. За железным — занавес тюлевый. Советский чиновник, крупный или мелкий, — воплощение буржуазного духа, мещанства. Ключ к флоберовскому термину — мещанство господина Омэ.

Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

She was a bourgeois pig anyway. Her husband is a doctor,

Progressives make money and spend money on businesses that meet needs instead of kill people! The future is in meeting needs - unto the bourgeois business of cleaning the drapes! - not spewing death and destruction with kickbacks.

The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.