Puritan Quotes

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

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

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

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

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

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

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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

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

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

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

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