Top 100 Peacock Quotes
#1. 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.
#2. People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.
Matthew Quick
#3. 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
#4. Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Thomas Love Peacock
#5. Sometimes," he said, "the right thing doesn't feel right at all. Sometimes it feels spectacularly fucking lousy.
Kathleen Peacock
#6. 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
#7. Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes
and calls it his pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
George Washington
#9. Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do.
Tarryn Fisher
#10. 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
#11. Jason straightened his shirt. "What's 'chauvinistic' mean?"
"It's in the dictionary next to a picture of your father," muttered
Kyle.
Kathleen Peacock
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!
Katherine Givens
#19. 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
#20. Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Van Wyck Brooks
#21. May we serve as God's messengers through love in action. - Nora Peacock -
Gary Chapman
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#33. To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#34. There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
Charlie Peacock
#35. There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards.
Thomas Love Peacock
#37. I'm a peacock captain you gotta let me fly!" From the movie, "The Other Guys." That line is so me. I can be goofy at times.
T.K. Richards
#38. I was starting to think maybe there were never any reason for the horrible things people did. None that mattered, anyway.
Kathleen Peacock
#39. Revenge probably tasted sweeter when it came with washboard abs.
Kathleen Peacock
#40. In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head ...
Jan Peacock
#41. The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.
Molly Peacock
#42. My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird."
Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time.
V.E Schwab
#43. The peahens waddled round, following the peacock wherever he went. He couldn't see in the night, so he wandered around aimlessly in the pen. Go the other way, she wanted to scream at the gimpy peahen. Stop worrying about where he's going and just rest.
Jennifer Close
#44. Be like a tree, bloom like a flower, sing like a bird, and dance like a peacock.
Debasish Mridha
#45. People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Saadi
#46. Everyone always sees more than they remember. And sometimes people see things they're not ready to accept.
Kathleen Peacock
#47. They've never had to make any real decisions at all. Their lives are easy and unremarkable. They're not awake.
Matthew Quick
#48. Parents believe that their greatest responsibility is to provide....its not...it is to prepare!
Regina Peacock
#50. I wrenched myself free and stumbled away. This wasn't happening. My life was not becoming one of those torrid teen-angst shows on cable.
Kathleen Peacock
#51. Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. 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
#53. Girlfriend? That's cute." Some people yelled when they got angry. Jason got sarcastic. Always. " Are you taking her to the dance next month? You should probably call ahead; I'm not sure if they let pets in-even ones that are house-trained.
Kathleen Peacock
#54. Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
Aristotle.
#56. I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.
Doug Peacock
#57. Maybe that's why adults drink, gamble, and do drugs - because they can't get naturally lit anymore. Maybe we lose that ability as we get older.
Matthew Quick
#58. Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#59. I like to pretend I'm a prisoner kept in a dark, dank cell who's only allowed fifteen minutes a day in the yard, so that I can remember to really enjoy looking up.
Matthew Quick
#60. Adonis watched her strut away, friend in tow, like a peacock with a stick wedged up its ass. Tessandra Scarlatti. He'd hoped in his absence, she'd fallen off the planet or died. Preferably both.
Em Wolf
#61. Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time.
Thomas Love Peacock
#62. I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.
Charlie Peacock
#63. Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ...
Thomas Love Peacock
#64. A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade.
Jimmy Fallon
#65. The explanation, said Mr Glowry, is very satisfactory. The Great Mogul has taken lodgings at Kensington, and the external part of the ear is a cartilaginous funnel.
Thomas Love Peacock
#66. I know exactly how strong he is ... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak.
-Jason to Mahiya
Nalini Singh
#67. No matter our limitations, God has a great purpose for our lives. - Nora Peacock -
Gary Chapman
#68. I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
Thomas Love Peacock
#69. On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.
Thomas Love Peacock
#71. I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.
Shane Peacock
#72. As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing. It is generally in perfect good faith that the jackdaw struts about in the peacock's feathers.
Emile Gaboriau
#73. Some are given to displaying their lives, every intimate detail of them, for others to paw through. And yet, no one can ever reveal all about himself. Everyone has secrets.
Shane Peacock
#74. Are you alright?" he asked warily. "Sure," I lied as I turned and headed for the stairs. So softly that only a werewolf could hear, I added, "You can't lose what you never had.
Kathleen Peacock
#75. A sensation goes through Sherlock,part fear, part thrill:it is curious how danger has two sides to it; how it can excite you and scare you at the same time.
Shane Peacock
#76. Much like a recovering alcoholic marks every single day they've been sober, recovering fat asses can't help but think back to how little they thought about what they ate.
Joe Peacock
#77. Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense.
Thomas Love Peacock
#78. Yancey crawled from her tangled bed one morning and assembled her long limbs and sharp bones into something as exotic and seductive to the eye as a peacock or a griffin or a unicorn.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#79. And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon
Ally Carter
#80. But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.
Thomas Love Peacock
#81. What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.
Kathleen Peacock
#82. She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Oscar Wilde
#83. Try everything twice; the first time is never the best.
Robin Peacock
#84. I craved something so deep, so passionate that it hurt to even think about it. Looking up at that first star, just now sparkling, happy in its dance through my atmosphere, I made my wish, my prayer, my making myself available.
Everett Peacock
#85. Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.
Milan Kundera
#86. She was even grateful at first for this backdoor entry into the New York art scene, although rather quickly she came to think of it as entering a peacock through its rectum.
Tom Robbins
#87. The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.
Charlie Peacock
#88. Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.
Mark Hall
#89. Painting the feathers of a chicken does not make it a peacock. ~Jane Doe
Sarah Cass
#90. The present is our own; but while we speak,
We cease from its possession, and resign
The stage we tread on, to another race,
As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.
Thomas Love Peacock
#91. When this story ends, a new story starts. That's how it goes. How it always goes.
-Amy, Willowgrove
Kathleen Peacock
#93. It dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances,
it dances.
It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock's tail,
It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances.
Rabindranath Tagore
#94. True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.
Charlie Peacock
#95. The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models
that we might not need animals in the flesh.
Doug Peacock
#96. You are not a ghost.' I was sure of that. Wherever the dreams came from, they were not really her.
'Of course I am.' Amy shook her head. 'That is all memories are. Ghosts and demons kicking around upstairs.
Kathleen Peacock
#98. Can you hide what you were? Every moment of every day, could you pretend to be something else? Someone else? Could you stand spending every day worried that you were going to hurt someone if you knew there was an alternative?
Kathleen Peacock
#99. I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.
Doug Peacock
#100. Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Thomas Love Peacock
