Top 100 The Nun Quotes
#1. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
Tonight, sent by the police, they come to serenade me.He laughed, then tapped his stomach.-I cannot laugh yet. As musicians they are fatal
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. 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
#3. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed.
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. 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
#5. My sister the nun, who wasn't going to wait for the bishop because she had an eighty-proof hangover,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#6. 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
#7. All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Bill Murray
#8. In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
Richard B. Garnett
#9. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
He was thinking well, a little too well
Ernest Hemingway,
#11. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
Do you have bad luck with all games?
With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth.
Truly? -Truly
And what is there to do?
-Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
If I live long enough the luck will change.
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. Jezebel the nun, who violently knits ...
Bob Dylan
#14. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
Yes, and music is the opium of the people.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
I do not follow you.
Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#16. They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.
Tom Savini
#17. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
I thought the pain alone would kill me
Ernest Hemingway,
#18. Worst was this boy Billy Hill, he was in school with me. When the nun called out his name she done it last name first, so it come out Hill, Billy. Can you imagine that? Hillbilly.
Henry Turner
#19. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
You like music? How would I not
Ernest Hemingway,
#20. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
Everything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO
It is necessary to be very strong against something
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO
I never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. Why the hell was the nun dancing onstage?"
R.S. Grey
#24. All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.
Edna O'Brien
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.
Evelyn Waugh
#28. 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
#29. Mrs. Dirello trudged out of the room, looking like a fat nun on her way to the gas chamber.
William Boyle
#30. 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
#31. Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
Nora Ephron
#32. Trust me, after the Boy Issues I've had, I'm becoming a nun.
Rachel Hawkins
#33. 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
#34. Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here.
Charlie Huston
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Is this your boyfriend?" the first nun asked.
Clair Olivia looked me up and down. "No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He's gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!
Bill Konigsberg
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
Idries Shah
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.
-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
#47. 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
#48. Will you still love me in the morning?"
"Un jae na (Always). Nuh nun (How about you?)?"
"Young won hee (Forever).
Bianca B. Bernardino
#49. I'm blessed, for I have sinned with the best damned fuck in the universe.
Christie Ridgway
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#60. I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Joe Orton
#61. 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
#62. Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.
Sylvia Poggioli
#63. NUM14.30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Anonymous
#64. 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
#65. It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car ...
Pope Francis
#66. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
Idries Shah
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I believe the words parents speak to their children are of vital significance. They become either blessings or curses, depending on their content and connotations. They accompany you through your lifetime, caressing or pinching, building you up or tearing you down.
Adi Tsin Ben-Nun
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
Leigh Hunt
#75. I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'
Cheryl Ladd
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The rabbis paled. I'd managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.
Ilona Andrews
#82. Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit.
Warren Ellis
#83. I tried to imagine what Jesus had said to woo that young slut, the first nun.
Rion Amilcar Scott
#84. He's got the kind of body that could turn a nun into a whore.
Brooke Moss
#85. I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!
Foxy Brown
#86. 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
#87. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.
William Wordsworth
#88. I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.
Dale McGowan
#89. If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal
Susan Vreeland
#90. I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability ... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Andrew Greeley
#91. I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry.
Ken Bruen
#92. I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.
Mother Teresa
#93. I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.
Gabrielle Reece
#94. She was my first crush. The first woman I ever masturbated about. My first Mrs. Robinson-like, older-woman fantasy. Sister Mary Beatrice Dugan. Yep, you heard me right - she's a nun. But not just any nun, kiddies. Sister Beatrice was a NILF. I don't need to spell that one our for you, do I?
Emma Chase
#95. Years professed nun, nurse and midwife in the East
Jennifer Worth
#96. His face was uniquely slapable - a nun would have ached to punch him - while his backside cried out to heaven for a well-placed kick.
Jonathan Stroud
#97. Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so that the whale could swim away.
Ruth Ozeki
#98. I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.
Madonna Ciccone
#99. She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.
Sarah Dunant
#100. I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.
Glen Duncan
