(12 quotes found)
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose”
Kenneth Hare
“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
“To the Puritan all things are impure.”
D.H. Lawrence
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action”
Wendell Phillips
“New Orleans was always America's netherworld, a sexual playground, like the Baths of Caracalla at the bottom of a Puritan country. Its history is emblematic of every event that has occurred in our history - the pre-Revolutionary colonial era, the age of exploration, and slavery, extermination of native Americans, and then of course the war between the states, it's all right there in the city of New Orleans.”
James Lee Burke
“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
“Singing the Hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.”
Lord Melbourne
“He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,”
Geoffrey Robertson
