Serpent Quotes
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A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.
Martin Delany -
The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
William Shakespeare -
The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.
Isoroku Yamamoto -
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 amalgram it was a woman.
William Sharp -
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare -
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
William James
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Francis Bacon -
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
William Hazlitt -
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
Franz Kafka -
Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
Elsa Barker -
The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.
Muqtada al Sadr