44 Bourgeois Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe. Helen Mirren

Myself Fighting Down Think Brits Bit Bourgeois Maybe Being Deep Deep Down

I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic. Jacob Epstein

Home Remember Father Men Somebody Meal Manners Synagogue Air Benevolence About Somewhat Outside Share Bourgeois Well Him Although Comic Waited Patriarchal Which Them Poor Who Chosen Bringing

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us. Joe Bob Briggs

Words Gone Other New Bourgeois York New York In Other Words Suburban Us

I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent. Lou Doillon

Time Family Money Girl Teenager Guess Kind Would Pretended Thrift Had Bourgeois Saint Stores Ashamed Who Buying

I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction? Marcel Ophuls

Life Politics You Live Life Live Distinction Never Between Bourgeois Make How Making Private Private Life Germany Against Stand Thing

My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules. Mariacarla Boscono

Glasses Way Rules Collection Wear No Rules Bourgeois She Always Hippie Mixing Lot Huge Very Mum Specific

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored. Marina Abramovic

You Slow Live Living Else Once Bored Slow Motion Paris New Like Bourgeois Motion Get York Going New York Anywhere Anywhere Else

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it. Marjane Satrapi

Happy Hate Word Cartoonist About Term Bourgeois Make Houses Am Comics Very Ashamed Created Graphic Novel Novelist Publishing Buying

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

Intelligence Every Bourgeois Dollars Cockney Million Million Dollars Nightmare

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. Mimi Kennedy

Death Future Needs Business Cleaning People Money Destruction Meet Progressives Meeting Spend Instead Bourgeois Unto Make Businesses

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable. Romesh Gunesekera

You Book Writing Money Too Earn Laughable Out Something Fact Could Never Idea Bourgeois Without Expected Getting Being In Fact Realised Then England Published

In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It's just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it. Sebastian Lelio

Art You Cinema Nothing Guess Latin Everywhere Latin America About Bourgeois Always Been Art Form America Just Expensive Form Activity

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag

Thought Signs Only Bourgeois Surrealism Universal

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. Tahar Ben Jelloun

War World Petty Everything Allowed Since Bourgeois End Achieved Which Regimes Average Second World War Mediocre Second World War

Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. Tom Hodgkinson

Life Work Punk Rejection Worse Sign Rant Boredom Morals Arguably Since Bourgeois Protest Got Improved Scream Against Then Things

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold. Walter Gropius

Culture World Old Slow Arrogant Spirit Mentally Empire New Bourgeois Proven His Intellectual Overthrown German Trained Being Midst Incapacity Unimaginative Mold Now Incorrectly

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