“Everyone looks on me like a black snake.”

—  Ned Kelly

Babington Letter (1870)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Everyone looks on me like a black snake." by Ned Kelly?
Ned Kelly photo
Ned Kelly 27
Australian bushranger 1855–1880

Related quotes

Thurgood Marshall photo

“[T]here's no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They'll both bite.”

Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Lewis
Neil A.
June 29, 1991
Marshall Urges Bush to Pick 'the Best'
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/29/us/marshall-urges-bush-to-pick-the-best.html
2017-04-08
MIsquote: White snake, black snake: They both bite.

Terry Pratchett photo
Anne Rice photo
Oscar Wilde quote: “Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
Oscar Wilde photo

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
Disputed

Werner Herzog photo

“As you see [filmmaking] makes me into a clown. And that happens to everyone — just look at Orson Welles or look at even people like Truffaut. They have become clowns.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

Bob Marley photo
Robert Jordan photo

“Jump in a hole without looking, and there’ll be a snake in it every time.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Hurin
(15 November 1990)

John Fante photo
Jack Kerouac photo

Related topics