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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
— Wendell Phillips
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When teenagers aren't turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they're as stiff as Puritans.
— Stephen King
For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.
— Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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 Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
— Leland Ryken
Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?
— Richard Baxter
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.
— Sam Levenson
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
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
— H.L. Mencken
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
— Cynthia Ozick
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
— Edmund Morgan
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Teach me the happy art of attending to things temporal with a mind intent on things eternal.
— Various Puritans
Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,
— Bernard Bailyn
The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.
— Tim Kreider
He stopped trying hard when she praised him, she had noticed. Puritans understand the value of delayed gratification.
— Lauren Groff
Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans!
— Jez Butterworth
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
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
— Louis Kronenberger
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
— Don Marquis
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
— Leland Ryken
It's not a performance to impress the Puritans
— Martin Tyler
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
— Leland Ryken
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
— Bill Maher
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
— Edmund Morgan
Puritans, like poachers, shoot to kill your inner bonobo
— Susan Block
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
— Tim Powers
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
— Vivienne Westwood