Shopkeepers Quotes
25 quotes by 24 authors
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows…
— Ronald Reagan
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One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in…
— William O. Douglas
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Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient…
— A. V. Dicey
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I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A…
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek…
— Hakim Bey
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Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and…
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in…
— Robert Menzies
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I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do…
— Fred Rogers
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Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
— Les Wexner
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Shopkeepers are not bankers.
— Laurent Fabius
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You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words…
— Winston Churchill
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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…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
— Tom Stoppard
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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;…
— Arthur Bryant
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My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to…
— John Kapelos
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Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with…
— Julian Baggini
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Shopkeepers Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 25 Shopkeepers Quotes as follows: