When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married. — Charo Copy Share Image
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?” — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum,… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to… — Magnus Flyte Copy Share Image
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
“Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“The convent of the sacred order of the Blessed Ladies of the Lobster had once been a dank and dark medieval castle… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Because I didn't have a Mum - she died when I was a baby - my Dad was told by people in… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
I was educated at a convent in Kent. It was run by Irish and French nuns. I mostly hated it but they… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep… — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult… — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
![“[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.” quote by Voltairine de Cleyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/556/voltairine-de-cleyre-13597_catholic_the-catholic-convent-had-been-like-the-v_1190548.jpg)
![“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60e/heloise-27050_abandonment_a-s-though-mindful-of-the-wife-of-lot-wh_2879511.jpg)