6 quotes about serpents follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!

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

William Shakespeare

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Ambrose Bierce

This will definitely gut the head off one of the serpents. We hope this will discourage such activities.

Dennis Fowler

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Bible

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Henry Walter Bates

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.

Ambrose Bierce