Snakes Quotes

“Favorite Quotations.
I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it.
It's not over till it's over.
Imagination is everything.
All life is an experiment.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.”
― Pat Frayne, Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat: Part I Topaz and the Evil Wizard & Part II Topaz and the Plum-Gista Stone

“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

“When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“Racists are snakes. Their minds are closed but their mouths are wide open, full of venom, ready to sting and destroy people around them.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

“Human beings and snakes can both kill you, with one major difference:
Human beings will then walk in your funeral, the snakes won't!”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Le serpent qui danse

Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,
Comme une étoffe vacillante,
Miroiter la peau!

Sur ta chevelure profonde
Aux acres parfums,
Mer odorante et vagabonde
Aux flots bleus et bruns,

Comme un navire qui s'éveille
Au vent du matin,
Mon âme rêveuse appareille
Pour un ciel lointain.

Tes yeux où rien ne se révèle
De doux ni d'amer,
Sont deux bijoux froids où se mêlent
L’or avec le fer.

A te voir marcher en cadence,
Belle d'abandon,
On dirait un serpent qui danse
Au bout d'un bâton.

Sous le fardeau de ta paresse
Ta tête d'enfant
Se balance avec la mollesse
D’un jeune éléphant,

Et ton corps se penche et s'allonge
Comme un fin vaisseau
Qui roule bord sur bord et plonge
Ses vergues dans l'eau.

Comme un flot grossi par la fonte
Des glaciers grondants,
Quand l'eau de ta bouche remonte
Au bord de tes dents,

Je crois boire un vin de bohême,
Amer et vainqueur,
Un ciel liquide qui parsème
D’étoiles mon coeur!”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / the waiting non-arms of a snake, / its tan beaded-bag skin / studded with black diamonds.

Up it coiled to speak to me a eye level. / Imagine! that sleek finger / rising out of the land's palm / and coiling faster than a Hindu rope. / The thrill of a bull snake / startled in the morning / when the mesas lie pooled / in a custard of light / kept me bright than ball lightning all day.

Praise leapt first to mind / before flight or danger, / praise that knows no half-truth, and pardons all.”
― Diane Ackerman, I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable.”
― F.T. McKinstry, Crowharrow

“I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swallows the babies one by one, and the mother hyena dies laughing.”
― E.B. White

“I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily...”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“The one area that Winkleman avoided was dealing in contemporary art, which Memling described as "shooting poisonous snakes with a water pistol.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“A monk once said: "Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, You chase the snake to understand why it bit you and to prove that you didn't deserve it.”
― Anonymous

“Neo lowers herself, her hands resting on my thighs. "Snakes?"I crave to kiss her, an electrifying spark igniting my soul. I want to pull her onto my lap, never letting her slip away. Together, I envision our bones intertwining. Rooting deep into the earth.​Neo rotates her wrist and a snake appears coiled around her palm and fingers. Hot. How did she do that?”
― Eva Rebiuh, Bewitched

“...common phobias of heights and snakes can be cured relatively easily through short-term desensitization therapy.”
― David M. Buss, Evolutionary Psychology : The New Science of the Mind

“Trust is the foundation of any strong relationship. If I have doubts about your intentions, it's difficult for me to trust your actions. Without trust, even the most well-intentioned actions can be perceived as insincere or suspicious. Therefore, it's important for us to be honest and transparent about our intentions so that we can build a strong foundation of trust in our relationships.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“With starry eyes we forget what is literally the oldest trick in The Book: that the very first 'liberal' was one of deception - a snake in the Garden - and he corrupted paradise.”
― Criss Jami

“At the shoot, the nine-year old kid placed the twenty-foot python around me as I lay at a forty-five-degree angle on a tree, as still as possible. As the snake slithered slowly around me, I could hear the crew oohing and aahing...Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, a few large spiders appeared out of nowhere to join the snake, and I was done. I told the kid to get that damn snake off me. The shoot was over--nothing else would crawl on me that day.”
― Beverly Johnson

“That evening, doodling in her book of True Things in the henhouse, Donkey drew a snake who had eaten another snake just barely smaller than itself and so was entirely full, from tip to tail. Then she decided that this snake-eating snake would actually be inside another snake, a rattlesnake, so she drew a third snake around it. And she knew that a king snake, immune to venom, would eat a rattlesnake, so she put a fourth snake around the others. She considered then that the snake doodle moved back in time. Before the biggest snake could eat the second-biggest snake, all the inside eating had to have happened already. What she had drawn could not logically be older snakes eating younger snakes but precisely the opposite. The younger snake grew up big enough to devour the older snake, who'd already devoured its elder, and so on back in time. The nested dolls Rose Thorn had given her were perhaps not mothers with babies inside them, but babies grown large enough to eat their mothers. All her life she was afraid of Herself eating her, but maybe there was--- also or instead--- an opposite problem.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

“It seems quite the trick to tell the friendly snakes from the other ones.'

'Ah,' Oak says. 'They're all friendly snakes until they bite you.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“John Deck was a snake fancier. He had only been rattler-bit a few times. At an early age he'd had his own pit full of diamondbacks, a plywood affair out near the garage. Some of the snakes would scootch themselves up vertically along the boards and John, cocky lad, used to knock them back down with his own quick right hand, until one day he presumed against a snake that was readier than he was, and caught a palmload of fangs.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

“An Influencer headed over to Shired Island. Trying to find snakes. Ended up in the hospital. You don't need to look for snakes in Dixie County. The snakes will find you.”
― Damon Thomas

“Trust me, mates, ya never want to fight a running battle with creepy clowns and their balloon animals! Balloon snakes are the worst. They crawl all up in your… well, never you mind!”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure

“I find money on the ground. Pick up nails before they
puncture tires. Never step on gum. All because I grew
up in a place with lots of snakes.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“It always bothers me when Slavic “snake worship” is mentioned. I try not to phrase it as the ancient Slavs “worshipped snakes” because it’s a misleading oversimplification. One would never phrase it as the Catholics “worshipped bread”. In Paganism, snakes are seen more as tiny manifestations of divine Earth energy and as such, are honored.”
― Patricia Robin Woodruff Ph.D.

“Iconography aside, it is easy to see what someone is trying to communicate when he pairs a lady with a snake. Alexander the Great's mother - as murderous and maniacal a Macedonian princess who ever lived - kept serpents as pets. She used them to terrify men. Before her came Eve, Medusa, Electra, and the Erinyes; when a woman teams up with a snake, a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“Being overly competitive in every single thing is what makes men jealous, and takes jealous men, and creates snakes with stakes always desperate to win.”
― Criss Jami