Puritan Quotes · Page 2

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

— Heywood Broun

Puritan age is a golden age of the prose writing.

— RMKATTA

“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.”

— James Maguire

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

— Oscar Wilde

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

— Francisco Costa

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

— Anonymous

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

— Wendell Phillips

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard…

— Paul Washer

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under…

— Garrison Keillor

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

— Alice Morse Earle

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

— Damian Lewis

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are…

— John Updike

Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.

— Tim Powers

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

— Leland Ryken

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we…

— Robert Staughton Lynd

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their…

— James Frey

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were…

— C. S. Lewis

The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual…

— Hugh Hefner

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you…

— Willem Dafoe

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan…

— Stephen King

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that…

— Charles Dickens

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its…

— Cornel West

Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and…

— Joel Beeke

I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I…

— Alan Moore

Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing…

— John Bunyan

America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious…

— Dennis Miller

“Father Brown smiled faintly. ‘I suppose in one sense,’ he said, ‘it was a matter of special knowledge; almost a professional matter,…

— G.K. Chesterton

The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...…

— Mark Thornton

And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now…

— John F. Kennedy

England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss…

— Colin MacInnes

In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to…

— Richard Arnold Epstein

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

— Janet Montgomery

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

— Wendell Phillips

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

— Kenneth Hare

I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

— Guy Fieri

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

— H. L. Mencken

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

— Rick Wakeman

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

— Thomas Brooks

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

— Janet Montgomery