“Everybody's a nun.”
Nine Stories (1953), De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)
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This was a comment made about picketing of the film Monty Python's Life of Brian http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/09_september/29/holyflying.shtml but there is no reason to attribute it to Michael Palin.
Misattributed
“I make rude gestures at nuns”
Variant: I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.
Source: City of Ashes
Source: "Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/anne-hathaway-wanted-to-be-a-nun-2343678.html. The Independent. (August 25, 2011).
“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum.”
Source: A Drink Before the War (1994), Ch. 2.
“Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play… with music. Do not distress yourself.”
The Baby of Mâcon
“Nun 2: (Very quietly) Sir, be grateful for the music. Most of us die in silence.”
The Baby of Mâcon
“I tried to kill it in my bed,
I gagged it with a pillow,
But awoke the nuns inside my head.”
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Just You and Me