Quotes About Serpents

#1. Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world.
They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents.

Heather Crews

#2. Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be p wise as serpents and q innocent as doves.

Anonymous

#3. And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell

William Shakespeare

#4. Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

Jules Verne

#5. Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Thomas More

#6. Pray knowing that you pray to your heavenly Father. Pray in confidence that when you ask you will receive; when you seek you will find; when you knock it will be opened. Pray knowing that you pray to a God who doesn't give stones or serpents to his kids. Believe Jesus, and pray accordingly.

Peter Leithart

#7. The snake charmer should not touch the serpents before his child's eyes, knowing that the child will try to imitate him in all things.

Eileen Goudge

#8. For acting thus you will remain innocent among the hissings of the serpents, and like a sweet strawberry you will receive no venom from the contact of venomous tongues.

Francis De Sales

#9. The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

Nathalia Crane

#10. There shall be corals in your beds,
There shall be serpents in your tides,
Till all our sea-faiths die.

Dylan Thomas

#11. I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.

Jan Hus

#12. The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Euripides

#13. What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be
let me be a woman?

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmless as the doves.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

Adelaide Anne Procter

#16. The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

Karen Kingsbury

#17. In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

Robert Lowell

#18. I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

Andrea Zuvich

#20. Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

Charles Spurgeon

#21. The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

Lin Yutang

#22. Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Henry Walter Bates

#23. It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.

Syncletica Of Alexandria

#24. Strike the hue. Westward, burning. Pages turning. Indiana. Ripe banana. Happiness approaches. Serpents and roaches.

Rick Riordan

#25. Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

Khalil Gibran

#26. Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

Edward Topsell

#27. Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Chanakya

#28. Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Do you happen to have a pocket mirror?
"I'm afraid not. Why?"
"I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. ... if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

K.J. Parker

#31. Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

Don Henley

#32. Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

Swami Vivekananda

#33. Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear ... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.

Horace Mann

#34. All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

Pliny The Elder

#35. Never forget the gender of mother earth. This planet is a body through which arterial tides pulse and surge, and within this fluid murk stir serpents, inchoate monstrosities of the amniotic id.

Robert Dunbar

#36. If the snake sheds his skin before a new skin is ready, naked he will be in the world, prey to the forces of chaos. Without his skin he will be dismantled, lose coherence and die. Have you, my little serpents, a new skin?

Tony Kushner

#37. Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

Philip Freneau

#38. He who has not been bitten by the serpents of light and snapped at by the wolves of darkness will always be deceived by the days and the nights.

Kahlil Gibran

#39. Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children.

Dean Koontz

#40. LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Ambrose Bierce

#41. We are no longer blessed with innocence, nor do we deserve to be. Paradise may have been lost, but paradise is a bad bargain. It costs too much. It conceals serpents, and is littered with graves.

Susan Rivers

#42. Henry stirs into life. 'Do I retain you for what is easy? Do you think it is for your personal beauty? The charm of your presence? I keep you, Master Cromwell, because you are as cunning as a bag of serpents. But do not be a viper in my bosom. You know my decision. Execute it.'
pg. 585

Hilary Mantel

#43. As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

C.S. Lewis

#44. Hermes and I sat in the back of the delivery truck on a couple of boxes labeled TOXIC SERPENTS. THIS END UP. Maybe that wasn't the best place to sit, but it was better than some of his other deliveries, which were labeled EXPLOSIVES, DO NOT SIT ON, and DRAKON EGGS, DO NOT STORE NEAR EXPLOSIVES.

Rick Riordan

#45. Manatees are real, mermaids aren't. Rhinoceroses exist and sea monsters don't. There are no more sea serpents guarding deadly whirlpools. There are pirates, yes, but there is nothing romantic about them. The rest is all stories, and stories have been put in their place.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#46. I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

Joseph P. Bradley

#47. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

Joanna Baillie

#48. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

John Donne

#49. I dreamt of a maid at a feast with purple serpents in her hair, venom dripping from their fangs. And later I dreamt that maid again, slaying a savage giant in a castle built of snow.

George R R Martin

#50. Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

Orson Scott Card

#51. Physical wounds could heal, but verbal wounds took on a life of their own. They slithered like serpents into the subconscious mind, and made people do the one thing that could be dangerous to their sanity. Doubt.

Kristi Lambert

#52. Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Walter Scott

#53. Did you never wonder why the old books are so full of dragons chasing after maidens? The serpents think the girls are orphans, and long to get them away in a lair so that they may grow up strong and tall.

Catherynne M Valente

#54. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

Dennis Lehane

#55. Woman, your heart is a mapless maze. Could I bottle confusion and drink it a thousand years, I could not confound myself so much as you do between waking and breakfast. You are grown so devious that serpents would applaud your passage, would the gods but give them hands.

Scott Lynch

#56. Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents ... and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19

Paulo Coelho

#57. For you, My Lady, I would slay a dozen sea serpents or, even worse, attend a party.

K.M. Shea

#58. I sighed. "Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

Amanda Carlson

#59. I never thought my life would end like this. Being hunted by mythological creatures in my pajamas. Honestly, it never entered my mind.

Amanda Carlson

#60. She wore a pendent - a glittering D - possibly her initial, or her grade average.

Rick Riordan