Quotes by Rossetti, Christina

Obedience is the fruit of faith. >>

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. >>

For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, >>

Quotations about Nuns

Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to medit >>

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am un >>

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a >>

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Rossetti, Christina