Serpent Quotes

Serpent Quote of the day

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

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.

Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

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.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Eve said to the serpent, “You know I could go for a bite to eat, but I don't know you from Adam.”

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.