"The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth. They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,"
— Book of Psalms 58:3-4
"History is replete with stories of the heroic destruction of serpents: Perseus and Medusa, St. George and the Dragon, St. Patrick and the Snakes of Ireland. These are not merely legends. These are accounts of battles for the survival of the human race — a battle we will lose unless we stop killing one another and focus on the real enemies. They are among us."
— CSI, "Leapin' Lizards"
"Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents at the zoo and see the slithering, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that's how Milverton impresses me. I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion I have for this fellow."
—Sherlock Holmes on blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton
"Snakes are straight assholes, you can tell the way they looking at him. They plotting right now, see how they got they necks up?"
