Puritan Quotes

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

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

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

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

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

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

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.