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.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the L God had made.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 3:1.
And the serpent said unto the woman,Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 3:4-5.
And the man said,The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the L God said unto the woman,What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 3:12-13.
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).
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
Mary Godwin Shelley— 1818 Frankenstein, letter 4.
I assure you, a tiger, or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens.
emily brontë— Isabella Linton on Heathcliff (Ch. XIII).
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.
"To which god must I sacrifice in order to heal?" To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me? It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster.
Robertson Davies— Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984)
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on."
julia ward howe— Published version, in the Atlantic Monthly (February 1862).
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 book of Mark in the Bible's New Testament calls serpent handling one of the "signs" that true believers must follow.
— In "Custody of 'snake-bite orphans' split between grandparents". CNN. 12 February 1999. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.
Today, two serpent motifs are commonly used to symbolize the practice and profession of medicine . Internationally, the most popular symbol of medicine is the single serpententwined staff of Asklepios (Latin, Aesculapius ), the ancient Greco-Roman god of medicine.
— In The Symbol of Modern Medicine: Why One Snake Is More Than Two. Annals of Internal Medicine. Retrieved on 3 January 2014.
Any other ’spell’ or ‘fascination’ or attraction might be attributed to a soporific or paralytic rather than a pleasurable influence; and arising from noxious breath of a venomous serpent or the fixity of its eyes, never blinking.
— In p.528 (Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life)
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.
Hier auprès de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Fréron, Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Ce fut le serpent qui creva.
— Imitation from the Greek. Found also in Œuvres Complèts de Voltaire, III, p. 1002. (1817). Printed as Voltaire's; attributed to Piron; claimed for Fréron.
To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (c. 1605), Act I, Scene 5.
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri, line 206.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
— 1:14
— Latin: Serpentis sapientia decepti sumus, Dei stultitia liberamur.
