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Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
It's not a performance to impress the Puritans
I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.
Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.
I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism
The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
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.
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.
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.
We have, in this country, this Puritan, hypocritical, nonrealistic view of sex that is entirely different than the view, for instance, in Western Europe.
If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
I'm a total puritan, but I found Jacques' adventures amusing. We couldn't be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
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.
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.