Famous quotes containing the words serpent and/or man:
“You danced with me never saying a word.
Instead the serpent spoke as you held me close.
The serpent, that mocker, woke up and pressed against me
like a great god and we bent together
like two lonely swans.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)