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Vallon was said to have a Puritan conscience but I had never met his conscience. — Ross Macdonald

God bless the Scots and their puritan upbringing, — Jeffrey Archer

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. — Janet Montgomery

God will try our faith before he satisfies our sight. — William Bates

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

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. — D.H. Lawrence

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

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

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. — Robert E.Lee

From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. — William Bates

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

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

Art is hard for a puritan to understand. — Gunter Grass

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

An older, Puritan approach to Scripture tended to prevail in the American South, where the Bible was regarded as a set of definite, positive laws — Mark A. Noll

A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators. — H.L. Mencken

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

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. — Mary McCarthy

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

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there. — John Bunyan

What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. — Nancy Gibbs

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

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

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse. — Ben Bernanke

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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

Puritans, like poachers, shoot to kill your inner bonobo — Susan Block

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

You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up. — James Maguire

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. — Mason Cooley

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

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. — John Bunyan

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

My passionate puritan! — Violet Winspear

It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan. — Winston Graham

Don't think I won't know if you're lying, I know how many bases you've been on, you red headed puritan. I will be able to tell fact from fiction. — Quinn Loftis

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains. — William H. O'Connell

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

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

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

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans — Martin Tyler

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. — Thomas Brooks

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

No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error. — Oscar Wilde