Puritan Quote by Anonymous

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

— Wendell Phillips

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“The way we speak and think of the Puritans seems to me a serviceable model for important aspects of the phenomenon we call Puritanism.…

— Marilynne Robinson

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

— H. L. Mencken

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does…

— Leland Ryken

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

— Hugh Hefner

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

— Adam Nicolson

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

— Pete Buttigieg

“The Puritans are conventionally considered more "moderate" than the Pilgrims. This is like calling al-Qaeda more moderate than ISIS. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans…

— Kurt Andersen