Mrs Peacock Quotes

#1. You're not going to throw this away, are you?" she says, and she'll be talking about the grains of rice in the bottom of the salt shaker. "No, Mrs. Peacock, by all means, you take them. They'll come in handy when your son gets out of prison and marries your niece.

David Sedaris

#2. But still my fancy wanders free
Through that which might have been.

Thomas Love Peacock

#3. Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.

Everett Peacock

#4. Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!

Katherine Givens

#5. Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

Kathleen Peacock

#6. Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks

#7. May we serve as God's messengers through love in action. - Nora Peacock -

Gary Chapman

#8. I loved Kyle. More than anything. Maybe enough to want what was best for him
even if that best would end up hurting me.

Kathleen Peacock

#9. The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.

Oscar Wilde

#10. But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?

Molly Peacock

#11. I went to the park and watched the pigeons bob their heads and I felt so lonely that I hoped someone would come along and stick a knife into my ribs just so they could have my empty wallet.

Matthew Quick

#12. Sound is the one true vocabulary of nature

and not the peacock-palette painters swear
he uses for his best stuff, for his daily disposable frescoes ["Sound," Poetry, September 2015].

Billy Ramsell

#13. Julia follows the beach, the sand that is so white it makes her doubt the beaches in Heaven could possibly be any whiter, the water like peacock feathers lapping at the shore, vivid green blue going hyacinth out where the sea starts getting deep.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#14. My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

#15. And it would be nice if the roof was a bit stronger. Then the peacocks wouldn't keep falling through. I don't mind during the day, but I hate waking up at night to find a peacock in bed with me.

William Dalrymple

#16. After watching the house for a few days, she had concluded that the magician lived alone, but you never knew if someone had a secret lover stashed away. Or a very loud pet. That time with the peacock, for instance. Noisy birds, peacocks.

Yoon Ha Lee

#17. News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Gene Fowler

#18. If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now.

Kathleen Peacock

#19. The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Joseph Addison

#20. Here, eat this. The chicken gives it protein and I got them to hold the bacon bits.
We'd watched Charlotte's Web on cable last week, so I knew it'd be at least a month before she would eat pork again.

Kathleen Peacock

#21. There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Thomas Love Peacock

#22. Jason straightened his shirt. "What's 'chauvinistic' mean?"
"It's in the dictionary next to a picture of your father," muttered
Kyle.

Kathleen Peacock

#23. There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.

Thiruvalluvar

#24. Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do.

Tarryn Fisher

#25. Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

George Washington

#26. Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes
and calls it his pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. He kissed me. And then he said it was a mistake."
Serena wrapped an arm around my shoulders. "Normally, I'd quote that copy of He's Just Not That Into You I picked up at a yard sale but-

Kathleen Peacock

#28. Sometimes," he said, "the right thing doesn't feel right at all. Sometimes it feels spectacularly fucking lousy.

Kathleen Peacock

#29. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Thomas Love Peacock

#30. The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock

#31. People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

Matthew Quick

#32. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM

R.v.m.