Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.
The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.
I suppose Swedenborg might have been pleased to have a room named after him, a wall-papered room with two chairs and two doors and a simple painting of a landscape containing a tiger and a serpent and a few birds.
The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.
The Spirit of Slumber which the Poison of the old Serpent has brought upon the children of Men is to be deplored exceedingly.
Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.
The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.