"Convent - a place of retirement for women……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have… — Therese of Lisieux
• The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo
• The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the… — Victor Hugo
• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have… — Lars von Trier
• The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw… — Maria Monk
• I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. — Sharon Horgan
• A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls… — Vivian Stanshall
• The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and… — Elizabeth Prentiss
• My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for… — Ibn Arabi
• My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered… — Cathleen Falsani
• I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. — Marina Warner

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