Convent Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used… — Maria Monk
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one… — Mira Nair
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There… — Simone de Beauvoir
Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across… — Etty Hillesum
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even… — Isabel Allende
Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and Iâ€™ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight.… — Richelle Mead
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have… — Rachilde
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
What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely. — Tessa Dare
She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagneâ€”bubbly and intoxicatingâ€”and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she… — Libba Bray
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they… — Maria Monk
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the… — Maria Monk
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at… — Ellen Pompeo
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without… — Carmen Busquets

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