James Connolly
James Connolly

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

John C. Wright
John C. Wright

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.

Karl G. Maeser
Karl G. Maeser

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Muqtada al Sadr
Muqtada al Sadr

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

Apocalypto
Apocalypto

Old Story Teller: And a Man sat alone, drenched deep in sadness. And all the animals drew near to him and said, "We do not like to see you so sad. Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it." The Man said, "I want to have good sight." The vulture replied, "You shall have mine." The Man said, "I want to be strong." The jaguar said, "You shall be strong like me." Then the

Man said, "I long to know the secrets of the earth." The serpent replied, "I will show them to you." And so it went with all the animals. And when the Man had all the gifts that they could give, he left. Then the owl said to the other animals, "Now the Man knows much, he'll be able to do many things. Suddenly I am afraid." The deer said, "The Man has all that he needs. Now his sadness will stop."

But the owl replied, "No. I saw a hole in the Man, deep like a hunger he will never fill. It is what makes him sad and what makes him want. He will go on taking and taking, until one day the World will say, 'I am no more and I have nothing left to give.'"

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

[Hansel and Mina are bathing in a pool of healing waters]
Hansel: I got it. You know, the last time I was in waters like this, I came across a formidable serpent witch. She mostly looked like a toad, but she could breathe underwater, which made her difficult to track. She was deadly.
Mina: [swims up to Hansel and silences him] Shh. You talk too much.


[kisses Hansel and seduces him]

Matilda
Matilda

Trunchbull: This boy, Bruce Bogtrotter, is none other than a vicious sneak thief! You're a disgusting criminal, aren't you?
Bruce Bogtrotter: I don't know what you're talking about.
Trunchbull: Cake. Chocolate cake. You slithered like a serpent into the school kitchen and ate MY PERSONAL SNACK!
[cracks the riding crop on the

table]
Trunchbull: Do you deny it?
[Bruce is silent]
Trunchbull: Confess!
Bruce Bogtrotter: Well it's hard for me to remember a specific cake.
Trunchbull: This one was mine. And it was the most scrumptious cake in the entire world.
Bruce Bogtrotter: My mom's is better.

[All the children gasp]
Trunchbull: It is, is it? How can you be sure unless you have another PIECE?
[grabs him]
Trunchbull: Sit down, Bog.