Convent Quotes

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. — Ambrose Bierce
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I… — 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 present time, to Buddhism and… — 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 to worry about them — Lars von Trier
The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep… — 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 menaced by a tramp. — Vivian Stanshall
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there… — Elizabeth Prentiss
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both… — Ibn Arabi
My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was… — Cathleen Falsani
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. — Marina Warner
It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
I was in a convent for a year. — Beatrice Wood
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted… — Karen Armstrong
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...… — Dorothy Parker
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere… — Bharati Mukherjee
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book,… — Hilary Mantel

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