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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. -- Ambrose Bierce
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 hearing of the old nuns who sat by us. -- Maria Monk
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 any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. -- Maria Monk
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing. -- Elaine Stritch
...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink. -- Dorothy Parker
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 siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud. -- T. S. Eliot
I was in a convent for a year. -- Beatrice Wood
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular. -- Sharon Horgan
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. -- Marina Warner
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
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 were always baptized and immediately strangled! -- Maria Monk
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 rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy. -- Bharati Mukherjee
I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.' -- Freida Pinto
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 of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla. -- Mira Nair
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 with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. -- Karen Armstrong
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 beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater. -- Ellen Pompeo
I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers. -- Kit Reed
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, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945. -- Hilary Mantel
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent. -- Diana Quick
I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements. -- Lillete Dubey
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 on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. -- Maria Monk
After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse. -- Howard Fast
My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school. -- Carmen Busquets
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. -- Peter T. King
Chic is a convent for unloved women. -- Anatole Broyard
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. -- Victor Hugo
In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot. -- Helena
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! -- Alexander Pope
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. -- William Wordsworth
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. -- Carolyn Wheat
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
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! -- Juana Inés de la Cruz
I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me! -- Juana Inés de la Cruz
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
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
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
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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 she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life. -- Elizabeth Prentiss
[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. -- Voltairine de Cleyre

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