Top 35 Quotes About Peacocks
#1. Skaters are very much like peacocks.
Jon Heder
#2. This is all quite fascinating," Grimalkin said, his voice slurring in my ears, "but instead of posing and scratching the ground like rutting peacocks, perhaps you should look to the girl.
Julie Kagawa
#3. Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.
Victoria Finlay
#4. Some angels are like peacocks. Others are less flashy. Like city pigeons. It all depends on the wings.
Shelley Pearsall
#5. Fancy feathers make peacocks, but you pluck them and see what's left.
Catherine Cookson
#7. I recognise your body in liana; your expression in the eyes of a frightened gazelle; the beauty of your face in that of the moon, your tresses in the plumage of peacocks... alas! Timid friend- no one object compares to you.
Kalidasa
#8. I shall always remember how the peacocks' tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks ...
Hermann Hesse
#9. If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Jack Dunphy
#10. 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 the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
John Ruskin
#11. 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 - and dressed their fantasies.
Anna Sui
#12. He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
and raspberry jam with his tea,
and womanish hysteria.
...And then he married me.
1911
Anna Akhmatova
#13. And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.
Irene Nemirovsky
#14. Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.
Janette Rallison
#15. He loved three things
in this life:
Vespers, white peacocks,
And old maps of America,
Didn't love children crying,
Raspberries with tea,
Or feminine hysteria
... And I
was his wife.
Anna Akhmatova
#16. Three things in this world he loved:
Evensong, white peacocks
And worn maps of America.
He didn't like crying children,
Tea with raspberry jam
Or hysterical women.
And I was his wife.
Anna Akhmatova
#17. I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves
Rita Dove
#18. British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
Tom Ford
#19. 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
#20. 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 braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
Diablo Cody
#21. At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.
Tom Robbins
#22. Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
Kate Christensen
#23. I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.
Huma Abedin
#24. Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try ... what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.
'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.
Ally Carter
#25. At the meeting of our lips, peacocks went into hiding, elephants suffered memory loss, camels developed a maddening thirst, and dinosaurs long thought to be extinct turned up on the evening news.
Tom Robbins
#26. Don't you know? Adam wondered. He, at least, could still smell diesel fuel on his hands. Don't you know what I am?
But this flock of peacocks was too busy fooling to notice they were being fooled.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. 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
#28. 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 Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
Logan Pearsall Smith
#29. 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
#30. Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go.
Kristen Schaal
#31. The only way to prepare for a trip like this, I felt, was to dress up like human peacocks and get crazy, then screech off across the desert and cover the story.
Hunter S. Thompson
#32. I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
Lilly Pulitzer
#33. 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 sweet white wine.
John Masefield
#34. 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
#35. Be motivated like the falcon,
hunt gloriously.
Be magnificent as the leopard,
fight to win.
Spend less time with
nightingales and peacocks.
One is all talk,
the other only color.
Rumi
