Top 100 Quotes About A Nun
#1. IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient bravery. For when Sister Cage of the Sweet Mercy Convent steps onto the battlefield courage is often found to be in short supply. She
Mark Lawrence
#2. A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.
P. J. O'Rourke
#3. She went at him like a nun briskly rubbing a pair of underpants against a washboard, full of pure vim and gusto. But no matter how sexless she tried to be, sex kept slipping in there anyway.
Charlotte Stein
#4. I've been kissed Slade. I'm a virgin, not a nun.
Shayla Black
#5. A hooker, a truck driver, and a nun walk into a hotel," Ida Belle said. "There's the start of a bad joke.
Jana Deleon
#6. I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
Martha Plimpton
#7. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.
Kathleen Norris
#8. I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.
Julian Clary
#9. Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his hive's back room.
Dennis Vickers
#11. Mrs. Dirello trudged out of the room, looking like a fat nun on her way to the gas chamber.
William Boyle
#13. Lord help me, I was going to become a nun if my male radar didn't realign towards guys that were not walking penises.
Nicole Williams
#14. ...they did not come down hard on Leone because she had murdered her lover. It was because her sister was a nun.
Chancellor Press
#15. I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
Vera Wang
#16. I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.
Helene Hanff
#17. It would not interfere with your being a nun. I live like an evil-minded monk myself.
J.D. Salinger
#18. Trust me, after the Boy Issues I've had, I'm becoming a nun.
Rachel Hawkins
#19. A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
H.L. Mencken
#20. He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.
Neil Gaiman
#21. I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.
Sheryl Lee
#22. You don't believe in heaven? A nun?'
'If you don't, why should I?'
'If you did, maybe I would.'
'If I did, you would not have to.
Don DeLillo
#23. Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here.
Charlie Huston
#24. I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.
Janette Rallison
#25. A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids.
Anne Tyler
#26. Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer.
Michael Ondaatje
#27. I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
Lynn Coady
#28. Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.
Amy Tan
#29. Cullan was already inside her room, walking toward her. The sliding door was reduced to shards.
"I asked you nicely." Cullan said in a loud voice. "Why won't you even-"
"Is swearing nice to you?"
"You riled me up!"
"You kissed another woman!
Nicholaa Spencer
#30. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#31. So you see, I can't go to Hawaii with you. I'm sorry, Tim. But I need to decide if I want to become a nun.
Pepper Pace
#32. About as much business as a cat owner has selling dog food. Or an Olympic swimmer has advertising for downhill ski equipment. Or a nun writing hard core erotica.
Abso-fucking-none.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#33. I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
Julie Andrews
#34. Well, that episode was the last straw, as my mom explains it, and the Nun Boss basically fired my mom, but even though she was a failed nun and never got to marry God, she went home feeling as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders.
Judy Greer
#35. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
John Milton
#36. 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
#37. Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.
Ann Hood
#38. It was colder than a nun's vagina outside,
Karina Halle
#39. If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.
Tracy Morgan
#40. Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.
Charles: I don't know what that means.
Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.
Evelyn Waugh
#41. The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
Alice Walker
#42. Angie gave me the glare -- the one that promised retribution, lameness, death, and worst of all, withholding of sexual favors, all with one look. With a look like that she could have made a good nun.
Giacomo Giammatteo
#43. Never spoke of it. He took the miracle to his grave. All Andrew ever said about the voyage was that a nun had taught him how to play mah-jongg. Something must have happened during one of their games.
John Irving
#44. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.
Sinclair Lewis
#45. Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.
Christopher Moore
#46. I can see you're jealous of Millie's love for me," he teased, his smile charming enough to make a nun reconsider her vows, "but you can't blame her. I've always had a way with a pussy.
Jessica Gadziala
#47. Well, OK then." He narrowed his eyes. "How about you? Do you have any ... romances I should know about?"
"Nope. Not one."
"Well, good. Excellent. There'll be plenty of time for boys when you leave college and become a nun."
She smiled. "I'm glad you have such ambitious dreams for me.
Derek Landy
#48. 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
#49. In fact the English nurses had spent much of their time stuffing mattresses, stirring gruel, and standing at washtubs, but Lib didn't want the nun to mistake her for an ignorant menial. That was what nobody understood: saving lives often came down to getting a latrine pipe unplugged.
Emma Donoghue
#50. I came from rainbow fabric; I drank textile ink as mothers' milk. I learned to sew before I could walk. I could never become a nun, purely because of the boring fashion choices.
Pepper Winters
#51. I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
Karen Armstrong
#52. Are you okay?" asked Finisterre.
"Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to my feet.
"Yes, I should imagine being attacked by a nun might be annoying.
Jasper Fforde
#53. For no reason at all, he thought that she looked like a nun. The beautiful kind. The kind that gave and gave because that's what they knew how to do. And the giving made them more beautiful.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#54. Is this what a nun feels when she runs wild? Perhaps running wild needn't mean dressing in satin and taking to cigarettes. It might mean running into the wild, into the real, into the ooze and muck and the clean, muddy smell of life.
Franny Billingsley
#55. Funny thing about revenge. It could make a killer out of a nun.
Kevis Hendrickson
#57. When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
Olivia Hussey
#58. She wanted to be mad tat e saw through her, but his mouth could honestly turn a nun into a sinner.
Toni Aleo
#59. I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it ... I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.
Helen Prejean
#60. In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
Richard B. Garnett
#61. What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#62. Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#63. I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Joe Orton
#64. I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns ...
Rachel Cohn
#66. You do like them thin, don't you?" Pyrlig said, amused. "Now I like them meaty as well-fed heifers! Give me a nice dark Briton with hips like a pair of ale barrels and I'm a happy priest. Poor Hild. Thin as a ray of sunlight, she is, but I pity a Dane who crosses her path today.
Bernard Cornwell
#68. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
He was thinking well, a little too well
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. In thirty seconds you will wake up," said Aziraphale, to the entranced ex-nun. "And you will have had a lovely dream about whatever you like best, and - "
"Yes, yes, fine," sighed Crowley. "Now can we go?
Terry Pratchett
#70. It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car ...
Pope Francis
#71. I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.
George Saunders
#72. People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
Jemima Kirke
#73. As cocky as this sounds, I knew I could walk onto that campus and get a date with the nearest available girl. Probably even a girl who wasn't available, but with Avery, it was like trying to hit on a nun. And not a naughty nun.
J. Lynn
#74. A friend sat next to a nun on a plane. He asked her what she missed most. "Wearing blue jeans," she replied.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#75. A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
Markus Zusak
#76. He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same.
Anne Stuart
#77. Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk.
Hilary Mantel
#78. Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.
David Nicholls
#79. If Avery was a whore, so was a nun
J. Lynn
#80. If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
Leigh Hunt
#81. Maybe it involved a woman. Oh, maybe even a nun - ooh! Wouldn't that be scandalous?" "Indeed, but no.
Jenn Bennett
#82. My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.
John Fugelsang
#83. For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
Christopher Moore
#84. It's fine." Brett shrugged, suppressing the urge to say something like, "The drugs are okay, but the sex is lousy." But she didn't want her suddenly nun-like sister to have a heart attack before Brett got a chance to pump her for information.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#85. Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?
Italo Calvino
#86. Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.
Virginia Woolf
#87. The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
Ilona Andrews
#88. Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.
Shane Claiborne
#89. Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J.D. Salinger
#90. Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.
Warren Ellis
#91. It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!
Shane Claiborne
#92. He's got the kind of body that could turn a nun into a whore.
Brooke Moss
#93. You're handsome and you have a nice accent, and a chest that would make a nun perspire.
Katie MacAlister
#94. Hey, controlling a zombie horde is hard work. I'd punch a nun for a cheeseburger right about now.
Jaye Wells
#95. Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you're a nun. Jesus can't dump nuns.
Jenny McCarthy
#96. I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
Madonna Ciccone
#97. the seventeenth-century saint, Margaret Marie Alacoque, a French nun of Parayle-Monial, who founded the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Margaret would deliberately eat cheese knowing that it made her vomit, and by her own admission she ate the vomit of sister nuns.
John Cornwell
#98. Yes, there was a nun in my bed," Nora said with a sigh.
"This is my favourite story already," Kingsley said. "Go on.
Tiffany Reisz
#99. She told me not to even try. Said you were ... as frigid as a nun and as cold as ice. That one actually stung.
Jennifer Ashley
#100. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.
William Wordsworth
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