Puritan Quotes

He doesn't like being told what to do. He's reacting against the neo-Puritanism that you mustn't smoke, you mustn't drink, guns are bad. - Christopher Buckley

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application / why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. - Howard Nemerov

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways. - Joe Mantegna

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. - Nadine Gordimer

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. - Rene Auberjonois

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