Puritan Quotes

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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the… — Margaret Atwood
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than… — John F. Kennedy
Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and… — Joel Beeke
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… — Rene Auberjonois
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me,… — Sarah Vowell
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest… — Willem Dafoe
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -… — H. L. Mencken
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life… — J I Packer
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive. — Paul Washer
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;… — Aleister Crowley
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well,… — William Carey

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