Quotes of: Puritanical Keyword

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

William H. O'Connell

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

Wendell Phillips

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

Leland Ryken

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

Vivienne Westwood

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

A Mencken Chrestomathy

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

Tom Paulin

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

Rick Wakeman

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Emma Goldman

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

Zoe Lister-Jones

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

James Buchan

The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.

Tim Kreider

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

Francisco Costa

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

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

H.L. Mencken

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

Leland Ryken

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Leland Ryken

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Caleb Cushing

There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Susie Bright

It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged the...

Leland Ryken