British Merchant

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or merchant:

    “However British you may be, I am more British still.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “Bid her paint till day of doom,
    To this favour she must come.
    Bid the merchant gather wealth,
    The usurer exact by stealth,
    The proud man beat it from his thought,
    Yet to this shape all must be brought.”
    —Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)