Sappho
Poet
"With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down"
Reptiles quotes
Reptiles
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another."
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"We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way."
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"If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated."
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"My girlfriend thinks I look like a reptile - it's not the best."
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"The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance."
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"America eats its youth like reptiles...Educat e yourself before they dumb you down."
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"I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles."
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"I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate."
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