Shopkeepers Quotes

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Remember, restaurateurs are only shopkeepers; that's all we are. It's no different from the supermarket down the road.

The much abused “shopkeepers” have abolished slavery and serfdom, made woman the companion of man with equal rights, proclaimed equality before the law and freedom of thought and opinion, declared war on war, abolished torture, and mitigated the cruelty of punishment. What cultural force can boast of similar achievements?

The Nazis have an ally in every town or village where there is a man eager to get rid of a Jewish competitor. The secret weapon of Hitler is the anti-Jewish inclinations of many millions of shopkeepers and grocers, of doctors and lawyers, professors and writers.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

Shopkeepers are not bankers.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

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 someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.

We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet.