“The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose”
Kenneth Hare
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches”
Matthew Lyon
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action”
Wendell Phillips
“To the Puritan all things are impure.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”
Lord Melbourne
“I grew up as a fairly puritanical, Protestant, football-playing boy in Virginia. I don't know that I've changed very much.”
Warren Beatty
