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)

“Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses’ beard!”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.”
—Alexander Blok (1880–1921)