Nunnery Quotes

#1. I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.

Anthony Powell

#2. But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

Mark Twain

#3. Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.

Tahir Shah

#4. The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

Maria Monk

#5. Get thee to a nunnery.

William Shakespeare

#6. By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I'd manage a nunnery for £500!'

'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn't a nunnery.'

Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect.

J. Storer Clouston

#7. It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there."
Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage in the forest than in a house full of chattering ladies! If God is there, it must be hard for him to get a word in edgewise!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#8. Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

Wallace Stevens

#9. He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

George Gordon Byron

#10. A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Maria Monk

#11. He stepped away from me to talk, and I leaned heavily against the wall beside his door. Clearly, I was not meant to have sex. This was God telling me that I was meant to be a nun. Get thee to a nunnery, and all that crap. I was so delirious I was confusing God and Shakespeare.

Cora Carmack

#12. Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

Maria Monk

#13. You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas

#14. Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks.
"She didn't believe in spirits."
"And what became of Henry?"
"Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself."
"Every Saturday night when he came home drunk," Frieda says.

Stefan Kiesbye

#15. I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

Jacob Latimore

#16. I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise.

Dean Koontz

#17. All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#18. The will to meaning comes from within.

Anonymous

#19. Sex is like God, really. I know they're both important, but if I think about them too much my head hurts." -The Best Kept Secret

Wendi Nunnery

#20. My heart couldn't survive a fall, not from the height that my feelings had climbed.

Alessandra Torre

#21. I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and blue eyes or green hair and dark eyes. That's fine so long as there isn't just one ideal image.

Alek Wek

#22. Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it ... Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#23. Kindness is the language of love, which everyone can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#24. I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

Edith Piaf