Almost Quote by Tom Stoppard

I've always been extremely puritanical.

— Ann-Margret

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

— Kenneth Oppel

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Tom Paulin

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

— Damian Lewis

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

— James Maguire

“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

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

— Bill Maher

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical

— Tom Selleck

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

— Joe Mantegna