Duty Quote by Henry James

“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 Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Ian Fleming

“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the insolence of…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

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

— Barbara W. Tuchman

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

— Tim Kreider

“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

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

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

“My passionate puritan!”

— Violet Winspear

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Oscar Wilde