I was in a convent for a year.

“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?”

— Robin LaFevers

“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation,…

— Henry James

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

— Ambrose Bierce

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it…

— Freida Pinto

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“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

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis…

— Diana Quick

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

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are…

— Elaine Stritch

“The convent of the sacred order of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster had once been a dank and dark medieval castle but was…

— Jasper Fforde

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter…

— Carmen Busquets

“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother with a…

— Patricia Lockwood

I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where men were…

— Kerry Kennedy

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

— Marina Warner

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;

— William Wordsworth