Gustave Flaubert - Bourgeois Quotes

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Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

I call a bourgeois anyone whose thinking is vulgar.

Gustave Flaubert

What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don't you think?

Gustave Flaubert

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. It is we and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition of humanity.

Gustave Flaubert

Books are made not like children but like pyramids…and they're just as useless! and they stay in the desert!…Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

There isn't a bourgeois alive who in the ferment of his youth, if only for a day or for a minute, hasn't thought himself capable of boundless passions and noble exploits. The sorriest little woman-chaser has dreamed of Oriental queens; in a corner of every notary's heart lie the moldy remains of a poet.

Gustave Flaubert

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Gustave Flaubert