Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and s...tings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a ser...pent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The "Green-Eyed Monster" causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpe...nt: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind abo...ut in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but n...ever one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" "I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." "I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Ser...pent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, th...e archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »