Puritanical Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

• Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. — James Buchan
• The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the… — George Orwell
• The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King
• But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways. — Joe Mantegna
• I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical — Tom Selleck
• I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America,… — Kevin Bacon
• Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. — Muriel Spark
• The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the… — Maureen Howard
• The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts… — Kim Cattrall
• It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a… — Alfonso Cuaron
• My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition. — Penn Jillette
• We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. — Mark Ruffalo
• The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical… — Robert A. Heinlein
• The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized,… — Wyndham Lewis
• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. — Youssef Ziedan
• American society is still puritanical. — Nick Nolte
• Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. — Lord Melbourne
• We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have. — Kate Millett

Who Wrote These Puritanical Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Puritanical Quotes as follows:

• 1 Puritanical Quote by Maureen Howard
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Kim Cattrall
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Alfonso Cuaron
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Penn Jillette
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Mark Ruffalo
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Wyndham Lewis
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Youssef Ziedan
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Nick Nolte
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Lord Melbourne
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Kate Millett
• 1 Puritanical Quote by James Buchan
• 1 Puritanical Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Florence King
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Joe Mantegna
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Tom Selleck
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Kevin Bacon
• 1 Puritanical Quote by Muriel Spark