Top Bourgeois Quotes

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticiz...

You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thought...

Bourgeois Definition

(n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

(n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

(a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember...