Snake Quotes
273 quotes by 224 authors
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The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom…
— Bill Bryson
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
— Anais Nin
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Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where…
— Ray Bradbury
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You're right. And so was my snake." Snake?" He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this my thoughts were on…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Where are the people?†resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…†“It is lonely when you’re among people, too, 
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding…
— Rohinton Mistry
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I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And…
— Sully Erna
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Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
— Jacqueline Carey
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That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.
— Jim C. Hines
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Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped…
— Charles Bukowski
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My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They…
— Mary E. Pearson
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She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had…
— Orson Scott Card
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I held out the painting of the cat and the snake. “It’s a cat and a snake,†Thoth said. Thank you, god of wisdom. You…
— Rick Riordan
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Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.
— Suzanne Collins
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Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater…
— Cassandra Clare
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Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!
— E.D. Baker
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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
— Virginia Woolf
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Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens.…
— Stephen King
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There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Snake Quotes
224 authors contributed a total of 273 Snake Quotes, led by these top contributors: