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Quotes About Snake

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict.
~ Mary Shelley
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
~ Lord Byron
it is so easy for us to demonize those people who are our enemies because our enemies confront us with what we don't want to see. And because of that our first response is to use snake detection circuitry on them.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
They turned into the Agarapi and soon afterward saw a great snake, endlessly long, rustling through the leaves and dropping down into the dark water. "An anaconda," said the professor. "Is it dangerous?" asked Miss Minton. "Not to us," said the professor. "It's a good omen--the God of the Water making himself known.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
Love hath made thee a tame snake
~ William Shakespeare
I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets…
~ Steven Pressfield
The symbol of the medical profession is the caduceus, Hermes' double-snake entwined staff. (The emblem is often identified with Asklepios, the Sacred Physician, however his staff only has one snake.)
~ Judika Illes
My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.
~ Frances Hardinge
In their dreams at night, people wander around as long as they sleep; just so, they are under the power of the snake Maya, as long as their hearts are filled with ego and duality.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Ambition soars and also slithers
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
Snake hearts don't stay put, like human hearts, but travel up and down the snake's body.
~ Michael Lewis
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 so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: I say, is that a sn--
~ Bill Bryson
Their flashlight newly activated, they walked him into the cane--never had he heard anything so loud and alien, the susurration, the crackling, the flashes of motion underfoot (snake? mongoose?), overhead even the stars, all of them gathered in vainglorious congress.
~ Junot Diaz
In the early days of Greek legend the god Apollo killed a venomous snake, a symbol of disease. By this act he became regarded not only as the god of health but also as the bringer of pestilence which he visited on mortals by his arrows. He must therefore be both worshipped and placated.
~ Frederick F. Cartwright
Oh, while a man may dream awake, On gentle Irish ground, 'Tis Paradise without the snake - That's easy to be found.
~ Frederick Langbridge
One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.
~ Aasif Mandvi
I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
~ Anthony Carmona
Between screams, Mom managed to cover the snake with a bucket, which she duct-taped to the floor, so that when Dad came home from work eight hours later in a suit and tie he found, in the dark, an enraged reptile—coiled and claustrophobic—waiting to strike. He just managed to slide a copy of the REO Speedwagon album You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't
~ Steve Rushin
An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.
~ Padgett Powell
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
~ Kristin Davis
I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.
~ Tom Felton
Can't be no Mamba. I don't want to be a snake.
~ Nick Young