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Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Oscar Wilde

“The way we speak and think of the Puritans seems to me a serviceable model for important aspects of the phenomenon we call Puritanism.…

— Marilynne Robinson

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do…

— Anonymous

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

— Michael Moorcock

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan…

— Alice Morse Earle

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with…

— Leland Ryken

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

— Muriel Spark

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte