Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours." "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time,… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! — Lilly Pulitzer Copy Share Image
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“It was strapless, the bodice peacock-blue and edged in gold, full skirted at the front and gathered into an elaborate, foaming bustle… — Rhiannon Hart Copy Share Image
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know. — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah.… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention. — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
