“ And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail; We'll pull his plumes and take away his train, If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I can live without it all — love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Remember when a peacock struts his stuff, he shows his backside to half the world. ”
- Herve Wiener- Copy
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