Quotes of Monger - somelinesforyou

“ Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears. ”

- Thomas Brackett Reed

“ We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ England is a nation of shopkeepers. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn… ”

- Dorothee Soelle
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