Top 100 Quotes About The Serpent
#1. Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
Alice Hoffman
#2. Six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
P.G. Wodehouse
#3. Did Maleldil suggest that our own world might have been saved if the elephant had accidentally trodden on the serpent a moment before Eve was about to yield?
C.S. Lewis
#4. To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
Voltaire
#5. The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
Robert Jordan
#6. He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.
Robert Jordan
#7. Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
#8. You're the one they're looking for," he said, with a curled lip. "You're the Glass Serpent.
Millicent Ashby
#9. ... lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#10. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Ovid
#11. Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Mark Twain
#12. I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path to follow. I shed my skin and begin again.
Mary Sharratt
#13. 2The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from
Anonymous
#14. A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.
Martin Delany
#15. When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.
Dennis Lehane
#16. Love is a fickle, slippery serpent that coils around its victim when they're least aware and slowly suffocates them by the token fantasy that all it promised ever really existed. Love is a big, fat, fake, and I intend to blow its cover - ironically between the covers.
Addison Moore
#17. I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.
Alexander Spotswood
#18. and the castle in which she dwelt was a prison to her; and sometimes sudden fits of gusty passion would overtake her, for weariness grew to hate, and hate to wrath,
"The Serpent's Head
Lady Dilke
#19. Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians.
Joseph Addison
#20. Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.
Cecelia Ahern
#21. He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Gautama Buddha
#22. Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#24. I touched Thor's hammer, then Serpent-Breath's hilt, for death was stalking us. God help me, I thought, touching the hammer again, Thor help us all, for I did not think we could win.
Bernard Cornwell
#25. Hell. I was like the serpent shoving the apple at Eve. Or rather the banana...
Elle Kennedy
#26. It would do none of us any good, runnin' an evil off like we're too weak and too scared to take care of our own problems. As if we zero in bravery and sword. We can't forget, we are the lords of our own 'round here, and we alone hiss back the serpent.
Tiffany McDaniel
#27. But it was Eve who was vilified, never the serpent. Just as it was the lady who was ruined, never the man.
Sarah MacLean
#28. There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"
...
"Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.
Rick Riordan
#29. We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
Saint Augustine
#30. What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
Khalil Gibran
#31. The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya
#32. A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.
Godfrey Higgins
#33. And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
#35. Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.
Pope Pius X
#36. Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear?
Kami Garcia
#37. Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
Cormac McCarthy
#38. Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#39. The people of Thebes were actually called by Pentheus, the grandson of Cadmus, "children of the serpent, people of Mars."[581]
David Flynn
#40. Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.
Richard Baxter
#41. They went to the column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the earth, the way people wear grooves into each other's hearts.
Jeff Zentner
#42. Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.
Robert Jordan
#43. Stick to your charms, they give the illusion that some beauty resides in you somewhere. Insecurity shows the real serpent you are and you are in this moment a venomous snake.
Faye Sonja
#44. The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.
D.H. Lawrence
#45. No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#46. She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave ...
William Watson
#47. When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#48. Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
L.M. Montgomery
#49. And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.
Andrew Marvell
#50. Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior.
H. P. Blavatsky
#51. For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?
Peter Ackroyd
#52. The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.
Thomas Paine
#53. We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
Gene Wolfe
#54. The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
Marilynne Robinson
#55. If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. Um ,sorry. I cant read the last line."
"Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?"
"I lived in Kansas..So ..no
Rick Riordan
#57. To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#58. The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
#59. Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines.
D.H. Lawrence
#60. Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.
Rick Riordan
#61. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.
William Shakespeare
#62. At some point, on our way to a new consciousness, we will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at once and, at once, see through serpent and eagle eyes.
Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#63. The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka
#64. Ranael looked askance at him. "What do you really think?" The Herun shrugged. "Does a serpent's nature change when it sheds its skin?
Eresse
#65. But the false serpent persuaded Adam that he must still do something to become like God: he must achieve that likeness by deciding and acting for himself ... He wanted instead to unravel the mystery of his being for himself, to make himself what God had already made him. That was the Fall of man.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#66. Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
Robert Graham
#67. May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath The
Andrzej Sapkowski
#68. People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
Alexander Pushkin
#69. When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.
Charles Fort
#70. Anger is a two-headed serpent;
one to bite whoever is holding it,
and the other to bite whoever it is thrown at.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#71. Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.
Rick Riordan
#72. For ten years you have climbed here to my cave: you would have become weary of shining and of the journey, had it not been for me, my eagle, and my serpent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#74. The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship.
Paul Theroux
#75. The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
William Hazlitt
#76. Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But ... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world."
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#77. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#78. Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.
Tamora Pierce
#79. You are the one
I am lit for.
Come with your rod
that twists
and is a serpent.
I am the bush.
I am burning
I am not consumed.
Lucille Clifton
#80. Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.
Peter Drucker
#81. Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
Myrtle Reed
#82. The tongue is a venomous serpent, which is why the wise cage it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. Our public life is largely premised on an exploitation of our common anxiety. The advertising of consumerism and the drives of the acquisitive society, like he serpent, seduce into believing there are securities apart from the reality of God.
Walter Brueggemann
#84. But this plan of yous!' Tawaret shuddered, causing a tsunami of jiggling hippo flesh.
Rick Riordan
#85. One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
Maxine Kumin
#86. To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
Robert Jordan
#87. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#88. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
Elena Ferrante
#89. My darling Lucy." He panted against her ear, and then his teeth scraped her earlobe. "I love you," he whispered. "Don't ever leave me.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#90. Eve said to the serpent, 'You know I could go for a bit to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.'
Red Buttons
#91. she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach.
Paradox Brown
#92. Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.
Edward Topsell
#93. Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
James Connolly
#94. The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
Abraham Verghese
#95. Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking
Lewis Carroll
#96. Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.
Megan Abbott
#97. If the Danes come," he spoke to Wulfhere, "you must let me fight."
"You don't know how to fight."
"Then you must teach me." He slid Serpent-Breath back into the scabbard. "Wessex needs a king who can fight," he said, "instead of pray.
Bernard Cornwell
#98. The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#99. In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
Ingmar Bergman
#100. So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
Ellen Glasgow
