puritan quotes

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Etruscan Places,'Cerveteri'.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

-1st Baron
  History of England, vol.1, ch.2.

Fora Jewish Puritanofthemiddleclass,thenovel isserious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,thenovelispractically theretailbusinessalloveragain.

- Howard Nemerov
  Journal of the Fictive Life,'Reflexions of the Novelist Felix Ledger'.

My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
World withinWorld, p.314^15.