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.
Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
Skaters are very much like peacocks.
Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.
There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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.
If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.
And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon
A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.
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.
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty!
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
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.
My philosophy on what makeup is. . . it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.
