How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. [ Italian Proverb ]

One master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. [ Pope ]

But the trail of the serpent is over them all. [ Moore ]

I took him for a worm, but he proved a serpent. [ Proverb ]

What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? [ William Shakespeare ]

No covenant is to be made with the serpent's brood. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand. [ Proverb ]

Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, and a scorpion to himself. [ Spurgeon ]

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. [ Hazlitt ]

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. [ Bible ]

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians. [ Addison ]

Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]