“ The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. ”
- Kenneth Hare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. ”
- Wendell Phillips- Copy
- 2K
“ The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans. ”
- Finley Peter Dunne- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.7K
“ French movies are much more realistic. I don't see why we can't see naked people onscreen, but can see a baby killed in America. It's quite strange. Too puritan, too uptight. ”
- Eva Green- Copy
- 877
“ The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 312
“ Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”
- Thomas Macaulay- Copy
- 3.9K
- 1