Quote by Archibald Henry Grimke

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“It was the puritan in him that couldn’t take it.”

— Ian Fleming

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

— Charles Dickens

“My passionate puritan!”

— Violet Winspear

“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times, in the…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is…

— H. L. Mencken

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which…

— Henry David Thoreau

“it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman