Peacock Quotes

• 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

  Sports, Passion, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

  William Blake

  Pride, Glory, Glory Of God

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Blessing, Whales

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.11, Diversion Books

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• 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

  Believe, Envy, Bird

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• A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Funny, Turkeys

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• Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Pride, Tails

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

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• You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

  Matthew Quick

  Believe, Different, Knows

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• 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 continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Views, Waiting, Gazing

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

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Genius, Virtue, Found

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• 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 is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• 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

  Fighting, Winning, Color

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• The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sorry, Tails, Sparrows

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

  Janette Rallison

  Long, Tails, Malls

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• 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

  Confidence, Loving Yourself, Sight

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• And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon

  Ally Carter

  Chameleon, Saved

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• Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Selfish

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

  George Washington

  Play, Wells, Deck

  George Washington (1888). “Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”

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• To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Paradise, Way, Satan

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.69

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• Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Turkeys

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• 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

  Men, Animalistic, Feathers

  "Are Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lopez Heating Up?" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. October 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Funny, Zoos, Pride

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• 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 up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Discovery, Ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.66

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• Skaters are very much like peacocks.

  Jon Heder

  Skater

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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