Cluny Convent High School

Famous quotes containing the words convent, high and/or school:

    ...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 (1893–1967)

    I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
    And not in paths of high morality,
    And not among the half-distinguished faces,
    The clouded forms of long-past history.
    Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of “projected biography,” who examine an author’s work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)