About Quote by Kenneth Oppel

I've always been extremely puritanical.

— Ann-Margret

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

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

— H. L. Mencken

Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!

— Bill Maher

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

— H. L. Mencken

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

— Guy Fieri

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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…

— Sarah Vowell

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

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

— Tom Paulin