H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
A Little Book in C Major, New York, NY, John Lane Company (1916) p. 76
1910s
“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”
Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932)
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Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
As quoted in "Lady with a Switchblade" in LIFE magazine (20 September 1963) http://books.google.com/books?id=e1IEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Europeans+used+to+say+Americans+were+puritanical+Then+they+discovered+that+we+were+not+puritans+So+now+they+say+that+we+are+obsessed+with+sex%22&pg=PA62#v=onepage
Poul Anderson book The Boat of a Million Years
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 330)
“It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."”
Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales
Isaiah 30.
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“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
As quoted in an interview in The New York Times (21 November 1930)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. VI.
“Like all neo-puritans you have a mind like an open drain.”
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 44, “A Firm Decision to Go Into the Wagon-Fixing Business in a Big Way” (p. 132)
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) English novelist
Diary entry, 20 January 1940, from The Diaries of Christopher Isherwood, vol I: 1939 - 1960, edited by Katherine Bucknell, p. 84<!-- >
Context: If I fear anything, I fear the atmosphere of the war, the power which it gives to all the things I hate — the newspapers, the politicians, the puritans, the scoutmasters, the middle-aged merciless spinsters. I fear the way I might behave, if I were exposed to this atmosphere. I shrink from the duty of opposition. I am afraid I should be reduced to a chattering enraged monkey, screaming back hate at their hate.
