Bourgeois

Famous quotes containing the word bourgeois:

“Look a here people, listen to me,
Don’t try to find no home in Washington, D.C.
Lord, it’s a bourgeois town, it’s a bourgeois town.”
—Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter (1889–1949)

“The bourgeois are other people.”
—Jules Renard (1864–1910)

“Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.”
—Cesare Pavese (1908–1950)