Serpent Quotes
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In the beginning, said a Persian poet, Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgam it was a woman.
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More Serpent Quotes
Kerala 's capital Tiruvanathapuram or Trivandrum which is infinitely easier to say and write was named after the serpent God Anantha, on whom Lord Vishnu reclines.
— Aline Dobbie, in India: The Elephant's Blessing, 2006, p.128
The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.
isoroku yamamoto— Statement in opposition of the planned construction of the Yamato class battleships, as quoted in Scraps of paper: the disarmament treaties between the world wars (1989) by Harlow A. Hyde. In this statement, Yamamoto implies that even the most powerful battleships can be sunk by a huge swarm of carrier planes. This remark also proved prophetic as both Yamato and Musashi would be sunk by overwhelming air attacks.
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.
robert jordan— Byar, Children of the Light
Padmanabha Swamy temple located inside the East Fort, this Vaishnava temple is very famous attracting devotees from all parts. Dedicated to Lord Vishnu sleeping on Anantha, the serpent king, this temple is a rare blend of Dravidian architecture and the Kerala style.
— Biju Mathew, in Pilgrimage to Temple Heritage, 2013. p.65
What, would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 69.
Where’s my serpent of old Nile? For so he calls me.
— Cleopatra, speaking of Antony, scene v
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 7:9-11.
Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.
(Harold) Hart Crane— 1930 The Bridge,'The River'.
The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent- haunted sea.
james elroy flecker— 1913 'The Gates of Damascus'.
And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'The Coronet' (published1681).
He seems to have been a serpent of serpents in the bosom of all the nineties. That in itself endears him to one.
frederick rolfe— D. H. Lawrence, in Adelphi (December 1925); cited from Michael Herbert (ed.) Selected Critical Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) p. 200.
"Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —" murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children."Child and serpent, star and stone — all one."
p. l. travers— Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is—more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe— Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1592), Act II, scene 3.
Who grasp'd at earthly fame, Grasped wind: nay, worse, a serpent grasped that through His hand slid smoothly, and was gone; but left A sting behind which wrought him endless pain.
robert pollok— Robert Pollok, The Course of Time (1827), Book III, line 533.
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe— Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1592), Act II, scene 3.
Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove; That is more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe— Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1592), Act II, scene 3.
Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days, Of vain and empty words, of idle ways, Of base ambition and the urge to rule; That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool; and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone. That I not call my brother to atone; Make chaste my heart and lend me from above Thy fortitude, humility, and love.
— A Prayer
as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 199
So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
— Apocalypse or Revelation 12:9
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
— Proverbs, XXX. 19. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Slander'd to death by villains, That dare as well answer a man indeed As I dare take a serpent by the tongue: Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act V, scene 1, line 88.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 2, line 73.
He seems to have been a serpent of serpents in the bosom of all the nineties . That in itself endears him to one.
— D. H. Lawrence, in Adelphi (December 1925); cited from Michael Herbert (ed.) Selected Critical Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) p. 200.
The infernal serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 34
Whether it be a poison from one serpent sting, or whether it be poison from a million of buzzing,tiny musquitoes; if there be a smart, go to Him, and He will help you bear it. He will do more, He will bear it with you; for if so be that we suffer with Him, He suffers with us.
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 588. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri, line 206.
What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
— Shylock, scene i
Schemes within schemes. The Great serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.
robert jordan— Melaine (The Fires of Heaven (15 October 1993))
