Famous Quotes
29 Quotations with Puritan.
- 1. H. L. Mencken: Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- 2. Marcel Ophuls: Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.
- 3. H. L. Mencken: Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- 4. Howard Zinn: Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritan ...
- 5. Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but becaus ...
- 6. Finley Peter Dunne: The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thank ...
- 7. Robertson Davies: I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I ...
- 8. Thomas Macaulay: The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but becau ...
- 9. Gilbert K. Chesterton: A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- 10. Gunther Grass: Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the s ...
- 11. Howard Nemerov: For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is wor ...
- 12. Author Unknown: In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new ...
- 13. Lord Melbourne: Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
- 14. H. L. Mencken: Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- 15. H. L. Mencken: Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- 16. H. L. Mencken: The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily re ...
- 17. Joseph Wood Krutch: The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanis ...
- 18. Ursula K. Le Guin: The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general accepta ...
- 19. Thomas B. Macaulay: The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but becaus ...
- 20. Kenneth Hare: The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away th ...