A Nation Of Shopkeepers Quotes

#1. It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers" ... (p. 58)

Jerry Z. Muller

#2. England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

Arthur Bryant

#4. Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

Tom Stoppard

#6. We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Benjamin Disraeli

#7. A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

Samuel Adams

#8. To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.

Danny Rimer

#9. If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

Ada Louise Huxtable