Top Snakes Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Snakes quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Harriet Tubman
Never wound a snake; kill it.
- Harriet Tubman
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Image of Salman Rushdie
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake
- Salman Rushdie
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Image of Maria V. Snyder
You're right. And so was my snake." Snake?" He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong. With me.
- Maria V. Snyder
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Image of Sarah Palin
These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.
- Sarah Palin
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Image of Jim C. Hines
That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.
- Jim C. Hines
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Image of Sully Erna
I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.
- Sully Erna
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Image of Gloria Whelan
I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
- Gloria Whelan
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Image of Hannibal
The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.
- Hannibal
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Image of Hugo Chavez
Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.
- Hugo Chavez
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Image of Elinor Glyn
A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.
- Elinor Glyn
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Image of Alexander McCall Smith
None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.
- Alexander McCall Smith
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Image of Freedy Johnston
I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.
- Freedy Johnston
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Image of Marion Dane Bauer
Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.
- Marion Dane Bauer
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Image of Robert Pierce
Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.
- Robert Pierce
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Image of Pat Nixon
The hearings are just like a snake about to devour people.
- Pat Nixon
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Image of Deval Patrick
I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House
- Deval Patrick
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Image of John Dingell
My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".
- John Dingell
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Image of Charlie Viracola
I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.
- Charlie Viracola
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Image of M. L. Stedman
Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.
- M. L. Stedman
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Image of John Bosco
Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.
- John Bosco
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Image of David Harvey
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.
- David Harvey
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Image of Carol Emshwiller
Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.
- Carol Emshwiller
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Image of Dean Acheson
I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.
- Dean Acheson
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Image of Claudio Arrau
The body is a rock; the arms are snakes
- Claudio Arrau
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Image of Mary Pratt
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.
- Mary Pratt
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Image of Jacob Braude
There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.
- Jacob Braude
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Image of Douglas William Jerrold
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
- Douglas William Jerrold
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Image of Juvenal
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.
- Juvenal
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Image of Wesley Strick
Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.
- Wesley Strick
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Image of John Divola
The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.
- John Divola
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Image of Earl Long
But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
- Earl Long
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Terry Pratchett
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Image of Anais Nin
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
- Anais Nin
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Image of John Steinbeck
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.
- John Steinbeck
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Image of Karen Marie Moning
Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.
- Karen Marie Moning
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Image of Ramakrishna
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
- Ramakrishna
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Image of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Image of Bertrand Russell
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Kanye West
I never seen snakes on a plane
- Kanye West
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Image of Terry Pratchett
Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Abraham Verghese
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
- Abraham Verghese
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Image of Chuck Palahniuk
I would pay snakes to bite her.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Image of Susan Elizabeth Phillips
When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Image of Steven Wright
Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.
- Steven Wright
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Image of Conan O'Brien
St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.
- Conan O'Brien
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Image of Christina Ricci
If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.
- Christina Ricci
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Image of Errol Morris
There's a line I love in Conan The Barbarian where someone says, "That used to be another snake cult, now I see it everywhere." That's certainly true of documentaries. I wouldn't say it's ubiquitous, but it's become close to ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
- Errol Morris
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