Nuns

(258 votes)   The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(124 votes)   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
1944-, American Author, Critic

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(121 votes)   Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(110 votes)   A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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