Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable…

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of…

— Nathalia Crane

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

— Chanakya

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

— Lewis Carroll

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than…

— Euripides

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight,…

— Pliny the Elder

“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent…

— Mark Twain

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Philip Freneau

“I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all and more…

— Rudyard Kipling

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is…

— Henry David Thoreau

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

— Anonymous

“Snakes are the most widely dreamed about, most feared, most religiously significant creature in the world. A squiggle, they are believed to be the…

— Bryan Christy

“Then there's the pillar statue in the semi-subterranean temple at Tiahuanaco [Bolivia]. Like the Totem Pole of Göbekli Tepe, it is anthropomorphic. Like the…

— Graham Hancock

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

— Robert Lowell