Serpent Quotes

147 quotes by 113 authors

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in… — William Shakespeare
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… — Kurt Vonnegut
Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take… — Libba Bray
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. — Voltaire
Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in… — Clark Ashton Smith
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of… — Mahatma Gandhi
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. — Ambrose Bierce
We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part… — Megan McCafferty
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Bessie?â€ I looked down at the bull serpent. â€œButâ€¦ heâ€™s too cute. He couldnâ€™t destroy the world.â€ -Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He… — Dennis Lehane
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this… — William Shakespeare
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see a movie flickering… — Henry Rollins
At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants,… — Piers Anthony
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be. — Alice Hoffman
His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well, Sadie," Inspector Williams… — Rick Riordan

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