Convent Quotes
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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
The team with the most talent usually wins.
— John Wooden
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
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
Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.
— William Wordsworth
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 conventthe 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
I was in a convent for a year.
— Beatrice Wood
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