Vipers Quotes

• I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

  John Major

  Numbers, Hot, Coal

  "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, October 25, 1992.

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• You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

  Andrew Jackson

  Nwo, Presidential, Bankers

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• Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Men, Land, Twenties

  Theodore Martin (sir.), William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1866). “The book of ballads [by sir T. Martin and W.E. Aytoun] ed. by Bon Gaultier”, p.128

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• It's not often that you see a smile on the face of the Viper, but it actually looks good on there.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wwe, Looks, Faces

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

  Samuel Johnson

  Desire, Poison, Chill

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.416

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• When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Sleep, Snakes

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• The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

  Euripides

  Women, Fire, Medicine

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• To control the mind with force is like putting a viper in a basket.

  Charan Singh

  Positivity, Mind, Baskets

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• If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

  Gautama Buddha

  Peace, Sleep, Wish

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• Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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• A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

  Martin Delany

  Men, Honest, Serpent

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Tongue

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Blood, Hot

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Sir Thomas Hanmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.322

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• Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?

  Al Swearengen

  Cutting, Pigs, Blood

  "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 5: "The Trial of Jack McCall", April 18, 2004.

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• You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

  Bob Dylan

  Rays, Safe, Palaces

  Song: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, Album: Infidels

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• Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.

  Nathalia Crane

  Children, Flower, Rose

  Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”

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• To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Hands, Play

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• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Envy, Vices

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• I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Revenge, Believe, Hard Work

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2185, Library of Alexandria

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• Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
  Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
  Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
  Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Heart, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1094, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

  Andrew Jackson

  Morning, Nwo, People

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• Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Dark, Reality

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.193

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• Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Betrayal, Father, Ambition

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.584, Macmillan

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