Gratitude Quote by Finley Peter Dunne

“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Tim Kreider

“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

“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

“For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.”

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”

— C.S. Lewis

“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.”

— James Maguire

“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into slavery without…

— Jack Weatherford