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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… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Vivian Stanshall
- The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss
- My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.… — 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… — Cathleen Falsani