Quotes with puritan

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

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Günter Grass Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Howard Nemerov 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.
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  • Caleb Cushing Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Kenneth Hare The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
    Kenneth Hare
    Canadian scientist and naturalist (1919 - 2002)
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