Snake Quotes
273 Snake quotes by 224 unique authors
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Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move!…
— Daniel Handler
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When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused…
— Rick Riordan
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents.…
— Rick Riordan
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Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the…
— Anne Rice
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Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!"…
— Libba Bray
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Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
— George R. R. Martin
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
— Salman Rushdie
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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What are you doing now?" Al questioned "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is. My expression went blank, and Trent hesitated. He looked at…
— Kim Harrison
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Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.
— Stephen White
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I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held…
— Joe Hill
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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was…
— Khaled Hosseini
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When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that…
— Unknown Author
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And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near,…
— James Agee
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i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
— Khaled Hosseini
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He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
— Robert Jordan
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Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
— Edgar Wallace
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I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.
— Unknown Author
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Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it…
— Elvis Presley
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As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of…
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
Who Wrote These Snake Quotes
224 authors contributed a total of 273 Snake Quotes, led by these top contributors: