Serpent Quotes

147 quotes by 113 authors

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band. — Don Henley
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
Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill. — John Florio
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. — Pietro Metastasio
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool. — Christopher Marlowe
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them?… — Joanna Baillie
The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which the Son of… — Arno C. Gaebelein
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. — Alexander Pope
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy… — Baltasar Gracian
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
By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this… — Tom Hanks
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. — Charles Mackay
The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come. — Muqtada al Sadr
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! — William Shakespeare
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. — Francis Bacon
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… — William Shakespeare
Adam was but humanâ€”this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.… — Mark Twain

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