Serpent Quotes

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

— Paulo Coelho

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants,

— Isoroku Yamamoto

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

“Be aware for there is a snare ready for a serpent”

— Sania Athar

“A serpent never returns to its molted skin.”

— Jason Versey

“Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!”

— Mark Twain

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

— Derek Walcott

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

— Anonymous

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

— Philip Freneau

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

— Ellen Glasgow

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

— Samael Aun Weor

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

— Edward Topsell

The serpent is rising uncoiling in your spine, bringing you light from the depths of your mind.

— Styx

Bessie?” I looked down at the bull serpent. “But… he’s too cute. He couldn’t destroy the world.” -Percy Jackson

— Rick Riordan

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

— William Shakespeare

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them…

— Alexander Pushkin

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time;…

— William Shakespeare

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of…

— James Connolly

It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and…

— Syncletica of Alexandria

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is…

— Minna Antrim

“I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path…

— Mary Sharratt

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and…

— H. L. Mencken

And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave…

— Andrew Marvell

And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty…

— Adolf Hitler

“Morwen took his face in her burning hands. «Don't believe the words of that serpent. You won't be a Protègè.» «But she…

— Chiara Cilli

And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the…

— Cassandra Clare

“The Serpent lies on the carpet, alone. The city lights shine through the windows. It raises its head and tastes things gone;…

— Kylie Chan

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove…

— Anonymous

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I…

— Socrates

So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“Let this curse find those who have stolen from us like the wolf finds his prey. May death come to you on…

— Josh Graham

“When we see this worldwide occurrence of the Goddess and her Serpent, and then recall the ancient African Black Goddess, the Black…

— Monica Sjöö

When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with…

— Ingmar Bergman

“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“[The Christian story] amounts to a refusal to affirm life. In the biblical tradition we have inherited, life is corrupt, and every…

— Joseph Campbell

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak…

— Anonymous

The cardinal points are a direct reference to the astrological colures. The Cardinals surround the Pope as the cardinal points surround the…

— Michael Tsarion

“A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in…

— Lewis Carroll