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Serpent Quotes

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Euripides (1941). “The Alcestis”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.75, Dion Fortune

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

Voltaire (2005). “Candide, or, Optimism”, Lane, Allen

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

Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .

St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.10, Courier Corporation

The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.

William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.23, 谷月社

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.63