Snake Quotes
273 Snake quotes by 224 unique authors
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance…
— Katherine Mansfield
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves…
— Terry Pratchett
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Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.
— Jon Stewart
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I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
— Willa Cather
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into…
— Katherine Hannigan
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I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of…
— Neil Gaiman
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Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide.…
— Charlaine Harris
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
— Voltaire
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I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf…
— John Green
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The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a…
— Dean Koontz
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A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and…
— John Steinbeck
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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
Who Wrote These Snake Quotes
224 authors contributed a total of 273 Snake Quotes, led by these top contributors: