Serpent Quotes
147 quotes by 113 authors
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Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.
— Thomas Brooks
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The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who…
— Aleister Crowley
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For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
— Chanakya
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Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.
— Dion Fortune
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I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of…
— Jules Verne
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See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using…
— Karen Kingsbury
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It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the…
— Syncletica of Alexandria
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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…
— Daniel Tosh
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to…
— Walter Scott
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Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty…
— Dario Argento
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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
— Unknown Author
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
— Franz Kafka
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In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
— Derek Walcott
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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…
— Frederick Lenz
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Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in…
— Socrates
Who Wrote These Serpent Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 147 Serpent Quotes, led by these top contributors: