Top 9 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
#3. Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
Tom Stoppard
#5. A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
Samuel Adams
#6. 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
#7. If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#8. 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
#9. 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
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