British Quote by Ezra Stiles

“British merchants became notably more aggressive and successful in exploring extra-European markets, and Crisp’s progress, from a concentration on Mediterranean commerce to involvement in…

— Linda Colley

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of…

— Tim Roth

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious…

— Edward Dahlberg

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Merchants and craftsmen make prosperity; chiefs, priests and thieves fritter it away.”

— Matt Ridley

Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants…

— Bob Frank

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

— Clint Walker

Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane…

— John Ruskin

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses…

— Henry Morton Stanley

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

— Thomas Campion

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

— Larry Holmes