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Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy. — George Saunders

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. — Sharon Horgan

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions. — Simone De Beauvoir

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If there are a million roads into hell, there's not one road out. — Leonard Ravenhill

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

The team with the most talent usually wins. — John Wooden

Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit. — Warren Ellis

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. — W. Somerset Maugham

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo

He resolved to leave the convent. — Victor Hugo

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp. — Vivian Stanshall

Bookshop Customer: 'Who wrote the bible?'
Customer's friend: 'Jesus. — Jen Campbell

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.

-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot. — Helena

I don't allow flying nuns in my convent," she said. "They tend to be frivolous, and during night flight, they're prone to crashing through windows. — Dean Koontz

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love. — Lawrence Blume

I believed, when I entered this convent,
I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me! — Juana Ines De La Cruz

The heart of a girl is like a convent
the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books; — Harold Rabinowitz

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them. — Lars Von Trier

As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink. — Dorothy Parker

What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely. — Tessa Dare

I was in a convent for a year. — Beatrice Wood

Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage. — Magnus Flyte

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. — Marina Warner

Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow. — Katherine Arden

Chic is a convent for unloved women. — Anatole Broyard