Petty Bourgeois

Famous quotes containing the words petty and/or bourgeois:

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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