Puritan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
-- Artemas Ward -
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
-- Gunter Grass -
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
-- H. L. Mencken -
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
-- Leland Ryken -
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
-- Leland Ryken -
It's not a performance to impress the Puritans
-- Martin Tyler -
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.
-- Mary McCarthy -
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.
-- R. H. Tawney -
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
-- Rene Auberjonois -
Anti-Catholicism has always been the ***** of the Puritan.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
-- Stephen Spender -
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
-- Zoe Lister-Jones -
Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.
-- Janet Montgomery -
I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.
-- Janet Montgomery -
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
-- William Henry O'Connell -
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
-- Heywood Broun -
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism
-- John Lane
