“The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.”
“I haven’t read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare – except ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in ninth grade. I’m not familiar with ‘Death of a Salesman.’ I haven’t read Tennessee Williams.”
“I played Shylock in my school’s staging of ‘Merchant of Venice.’”
“There’s no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.”
“Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.”
“The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.”
“I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.”
“Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor’s degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.”
“Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.”
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