Nation Of Shopkeepers Quotes

#1. England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Tom Stoppard

#3. We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Samuel Adams

#5. 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

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

Ada Louise Huxtable

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

Jerry Z. Muller

#8. I sure am sick of the Civil War.

Flannery O'Connor

#9. You'd give up all this for me?"
"Sure. In a heartbeat."
"I couldn't let you do that."
"The hell you couldn't. I'd go live in a trailer park in the middle of the Mississippi swamps if it meant I could be with you and give this a shot.

Elle Casey

#10. 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

#11. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks ...

William Shakespeare

#12. if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that Change

Michael Jackson

#13. How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

Ilona Andrews

#14. who stood by as the consequences

Anthony Doerr

#15. 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

#16. When we push for immediate results and instant healing, we never inhabit the important in-between phase, which is where much of the learning and growth actually happen.

Bo Forbes

#17. I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

Daniel Radcliffe

#18. Do not be surprised that the world hates you, the truth is coming from the atheists I know.

Auliq Ice

#19. No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!

Robert Muller

#20. I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

Zubin Mehta

#21. It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

Patti LaBelle

#22. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

Christopher Monckton

#24. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.

Santosh Kalwar