Peacock Quotes

64 Peacock quotes by 51 unique authors

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even… — Diablo Cody
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. — Herman Melville
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be… — Charles Darwin
I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around. — Bradley Cooper
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I… — Helen McCrory
I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual… — Erica Jong
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion… — William Blake
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will… — Flannery O'Connor
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. — William Blake
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. — Charles Godfrey Leland
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! — Lilly Pulitzer
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies… — Anna Sui
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. — Van Wyck Brooks
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… — John Ruskin
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and… — John Masefield
A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey. — Dolly Parton
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. — Rabindranath Tagore
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty… — Leonardo da Vinci
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 Peacocks, of eloquent… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Skaters are very much like peacocks. — Jon Heder
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. — George Washington

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