Bitten

Famous quotes containing the word bitten:

“Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent?”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 12:13.

“Once bitten by a snake, one shies at well ropes for the next three years.”
—Chinese proverb.

“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It’s forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there’s a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)