Quotes About The Tradesmen

#1. My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. Even if he doesn't go to college, he could at least learn to make something. Nobody in this country knows how to sink a nail anymore. They're all dependent on the tradesmen their kids are taught not to become.

Lionel Shriver

#3. It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.

Franz Kafka

#4. Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#6. perdition. She knew the poor tradesmen who were bankrupt by

William Makepeace Thackeray

#7. Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, politicians, but not magicians. Our time is past.

Susanna Clarke

#8. The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride ...

Pete Munro

#9. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.

Jennifer Paynter

#10. She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open.

Boris Pasternak

#11. Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. Many tradesmen export their best commodities
the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour; but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Honore De Balzac