Top 100 Serpent Quotes
#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
#3. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
Aleister Crowley
#4. Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad impression of PG-13 fart-joke-movie comedian.
Jeff Zentner
#5. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
Voltaire
#9. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
Robertson Davies
#10. Those who treat with Norilendra Queen must be accomplished serpent handlers.
J.R. Hardesty
#11. 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
#12. I have realized that my will, no matter how intelligent I am, is only another nuisance on the face of the earth, once I start exerting it. And other people's wills are even worse.
D.H. Lawrence
#13. Living as human being and as a divinity.
moving from tension into relaxation,
from relaxation into trance,
from trance into a more intense contact with other people.
from that contact back into tension and so on,
Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.
Paulo Coelho
#14. He said the Dark One intended to blind the Eye of the World, and slay the Great Serpent, kill time itself.
Robert Jordan
#15. Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is
more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
#16. You're the one they're looking for," he said, with a curled lip. "You're the Glass Serpent.
Millicent Ashby
#17. ... 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.
#18. Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Ovid
#19. My give-a-shit button's broken, baby," Rune said.
Thea Harrison
#20. Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin ... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'
John Owen
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
Martin Luther
#27. In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
She knew that there was something better than paradise
Cesare Borgia
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.
Michael Tsarion
#32. 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
#33. Truly Time is a vast Denful of Horrour, round about which a Serpent winds and in the winding bites itself by the Tail. Now, now is the Hour, every Hour, every part of an Hour, every Moment, which in its end does begin again and never ceases to end: a beginning continuing, always ending.
Peter Ackroyd
#34. The Lord, however, transferred to His own flesh not sin, as the poison of the serpent, but He did transfer to it death, that the penalty without the fault might transpire in the likeness of sinful flesh, whence, in the sinful flesh, both the fault might be removed and the penalty.
Bishop Serapion
#35. 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
#36. No paradise is ever without its Serpent, nor any Eden its exiles.
Jennifer Munro
#37. Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.
Cecelia Ahern
#38. There is an old Russian saying. 'A serpent changes his skin, not his fangs.
M.K. Hobson
#39. You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. - Victor Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley
#40. 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
#42. 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
#44. The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.
Gautama Buddha
#45. The serpent hissing between the lips of Envy is so huge, and so completely fills her wide-opened mouth that the muscles of her face are strained and contorted, ...
Marcel Proust
#47. 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
#49. Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But ... she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.
Libba Bray
#50. You are guardian of a treasure,
Oh, just like a sleeping serpent
And you shall see, I shall make you
Spin around like that sleepy snake.
Listen to me.
Rumi
#51. The other mother shook her head, very slowly. "Sharper than a serpent's tooth," she said, "is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love." And her long white fingers waggled and caressed the air.
Neil Gaiman
#52. Hell. I was like the serpent shoving the apple at Eve. Or rather the banana...
Elle Kennedy
#53. Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirits can be broken, with love.
Neil Gaiman
#54. Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
H.L. Mencken
#55. 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
#56. You're kidding," i said. "i'm thinking about plans for doomsday, and you're worried about being late to a dance?
Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan
#57. But it was Eve who was vilified, never the serpent. Just as it was the lady who was ruined, never the man.
Sarah MacLean
#59. 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
#60. We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
Saint Augustine
#62. What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
Khalil Gibran
#63. Everyone meets a silver-tongued serpent at some point.
Karina Halle
#64. In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with the occasional feathered serpent thrown in.
Jonathan Stroud
#65. The credit system has encircled this beautiful globe of ours like a serpent's coil, and if we do not mind, it bids fair to crush us out of breath.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.
William Shakespeare
#69. As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).
Thomas Watson
#71. And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
#72. Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,
dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
Friedrich Schiller
#73. There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
Larissa Ione
#75. 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
#76. The Serpent is wise in that it lives in immediacy, without the need for the elaborate intellectual frameworks Humankind is
Margaret Atwood
#77. Nobody messes with my boy. Not Abraham Ravenwood, nor the Serpent or Old Scratch himself, you hear?
Kami Garcia
#78. Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
Cormac McCarthy
#79. 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
#80. The people of Thebes were actually called by Pentheus, the grandson of Cadmus, "children of the serpent, people of Mars."[581]
David Flynn
#81. 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
#82. Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket
Andrew Lennon
#84. 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
#85. Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Francis Bacon
#86. The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.
Samael Aun Weor
#87. So if you go to a King Tut exhibit someday and notice cracks or burn marks on the artifacts, or maybe a statue with its head glued on backward-well, sorry. that was probably our fault
Serpent's Shadow Rick Riordan
#88. Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile.
M.Sullivan
Mike Sullivan
#89. 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
#90. Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.
Joseph Campbell
#91. What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.
Patricia Gaffney
#92. Serpent-Breath was famous ... Wasp-Sting, short and lethal.
Bernard Cornwell
#93. She leaped onto the serpent's head and scratched and growled like a really angry black wig.
Rick Riordan
#94. 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
#95. The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.
D.H. Lawrence
#96. 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.
#97. 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
#98. She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not his wife but his little sister.
Shakuita Johnson
#99. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
Charles Spurgeon
