Top 100 Serpent Quotes
#1. She was silent as she felt the energy between them shift, like a serpent circling back on itself, swallowing itself whole, anger and passion feeding off one another.
Sylvain Reynard
#2. If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#4. So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.
Tom Cole
#5. The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
#6. Military glory
that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood
that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy ...
Abraham Lincoln
#7. The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
John Bunyan
#8. Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
Franz Kafka
#9. I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3). Sin is the move away from simple devotion to Christ. Sin is spiritual complexity.
Tony Reinke
#10. 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
#11. When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
Joseph Addison
#12. I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. The great dragon was thrown out - the ancient serpent ... the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. Revelation 12:9
Beth Moore
#14. The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. 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
#16. The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka
#17. It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Thomas Hardy
#18. 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
#19. Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.
John Florio
#21. The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.
George Ade
#23. An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
Charles Mackay
#24. I couldn't afford to tangle myself up in other people's expectations and inevitable disappointment. It would be awful. An ever-expanding cycle of everyone feeling bad, like a bulimic serpent eating its own tail.
Alexis Hall
#25. How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea!
Kyril Bonfiglioli
#26. The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask.
Andrew Davidson
#28. 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
#29. Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#30. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
#31. 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
#32. Like a serpent, this demon had coiled and nested into those empty and cavernous spaces of his heart. Like a harpy, she had preyed on his absolute aloneness.
Kelly Creagh
#33. Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.
P.L. Travers
#34. The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.
Martin Luther
#35. The flying serpent figure is ancient civilizations' way of creeping onto the throne of the Upper Heavens to claim its authority.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. "Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.
Tom Cole
#40. You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake.
Pierce Brown
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.
Paulo Coelho
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
Elsa Barker
#47. The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
William Hazlitt
#48. Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
Edward Carpenter
#49. Bessie?" I looked down at the bull serpent. "But ... he's too cute. He couldn't destroy the world."
-Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#50. 11What father among you, if his son asks for [4] a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 12or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Anonymous
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.
E.L. James
#54. Cnut Longsword had near killed me with his blade Ice-Spite and it was small consolation that Serpent-Breath had sliced his throat in the same heartbeat that his sword had broken a rib and pierced my lung.
Bernard Cornwell
#55. 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
#56. Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
A. E. Waite
#57. So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
Ellen Glasgow
#59. I'm not a serpent, Father. I'm a crow.
Eli Easton
#61. In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
Ingmar Bergman
#62. The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#63. Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.
Thomas Brooks
#64. 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
#65. Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.
Megan Abbott
#66. Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Euripides
#67. 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
#68. When Satan tempted Adam, he was disguised as a serpent; when Satan tempted Jesus, he was not disguised. As we approach the End of the Age, Satan will gradually unmask himself. Matthew 24 and Revelation 13
Felix Wantang
#69. The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
Abraham Verghese
#70. AMPHISBAeNA (AMPHISBAe'NA) n.s.[Lat. serpent supposed to have two heads. That the amphisbaena, that is, a smaller kind of serpent, which moveth forward and backward, hath two heads, or one at either extreme, was affirmed by Nicander, and others.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii.
Samuel Johnson
#71. A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant begets misery,
As living in a house with a serpent in it begets death surely.
[5] 1.5 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#72. Poor Flemps and his wife - they little thought what a serpent of deduction they had been nourishing in their cab.
Andrew Forrester
#73. I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
Karl G. Maeser
#74. How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
Chanakya
#75. Not since the serpent
approached Eve in the Garden had a woman been so tempted by forbidden fruit.
Teresa Medeiros
#76. 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
#79. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts?
Voltaire
#80. she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach.
Paradox Brown
#81. Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
Khalil Gibran
#82. But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#83. Fire had danced in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue.
Shakuita Johnson
#84. 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
#85. Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
Myrtle Reed
#87. The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
Minna Antrim
#88. Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.
Gerry Rafferty
#89. The tongue is a venomous serpent, which is why the wise cage it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. The sword is like a serpent. You can try to tame it, but it is venomous and will often bite the hand that holds it.
Matthew Harffy
#91. When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
A. J. Jacobs
#92. In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#93. While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps,
Between us two let there be peace, both joining,
As joined in injuries, and enmity
Against a foe by doom express assigned us,
That cruel serpent.
John Milton
#94. I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.
Daniel Tosh
#95. 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
#96. Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.
Hilda Doolittle
#98. 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
#100. At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing
Baltasar Gracian
