“Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“About these developments George Orwell , in Nineteen Eighty-Four , was quite wrong. He described a new kind of state and police… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“The history of New England, and especially of Massachusetts, is full of the horrors that have turned life into gloom, joy into… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Every stimulus which quickens the imagination and raises the spirits, is as necessary to our life as air. It invigorates the body,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare Copy Share Image
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are… — Edward M. Hallowell Copy Share Image
