End Quote by Damian Lewis

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something…

— Tom Stoppard

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

— Robert E. Lee

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

— Tom Selleck

“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

“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

I've reached a stage and an age in my career where I need to do work that keeps me economically and emotionally comfortable. And…

— Victor Banerjee

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

— Lee Marvin

I've always been extremely puritanical.

— Ann-Margret

“I think that deep inside yourself, in your heart, you're a Puritan. Yes, a Puritan. Or an ascetic; a sort of hermit monk. I…

— James Ramsey Ullman

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

— Tom Paulin

“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

“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

— Tim Kreider