Peacock Quotes - Page 2

• There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Eight, Different

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• The sun fades like the spreading
  Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
  Might be read as a warning to those desperate
  For easy solutions.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Twilight

  John Ashbery (1986). "Selected Poems", Penguin Group USA

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• Nos hacemos todo tipo de preguntas, como por qué un pavo real tiene unas plumas tan bonitas, y podemos responder que necesita las plumas para impresionar a una pava real hembra, pero luego nos preguntamos, ¿y por qué hay un pavo real? Y entonces nos preguntamos, ¿por qué hay algo vivo? Y luego nos preguntamos, ¿por qué hay algo? Y si le dices a algún defensor del cientificismo que la respuesta es un secreto, se pondrá como una fiera y escribirá un libro. Pero es un secreto. Y la experiencia de vivir con el secreto y pensar en él es en sí misma una especie de fe.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hermoso, Libro, Escritura

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• Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

  Liberace

  Men, Clothes, Becoming

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• How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

  Toni Morrison

  Giving Up, Vanity, Tails

  Toni Morrison (1987). "Sula"

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• As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Vanity, Vices

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.939, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• A pesar de todo el parloteo feminista sobre las mujeres como víctimas de la moda, son los hombres quienes más sufren las convenciones del vestir. Cada día, una mujer puede elegir entre un ejército de personajes, de femme a butch, y puede cortarse o rizarse el pelo o adornarse con una asombrosa variedad de ayudas artísticas. Pero a pesar de los experimentos de los años sesenta con vestidos de pavo real, ningún hombre puede ascender hoy en el mundo empresarial, fuera de la industria del entretenimiento, con pelo largo o maquillaje o trajes de terciopelo púrpura.

  Camille Paglia

  Moda, Corte, Ejército

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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 Gracián

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• Un ejemplo que utilizo a menudo para ilustrar la realidad de la vanidad, es el siguiente: mira el pavo real; es hermoso si lo miras de frente. Pero si lo miras por detrás, descubres la verdad... Quien se entrega a esa vanidad ensimismada, esconde en su interior una enorme miseria.

  Pope Francis

  Vida, Éxito, Hermosa

  "'Carrerismo y vanidad: Pecados de la Iglesia'". Entrevista Vatican Insider, www.lastampa.it. 24 de febrero de 2012.

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• If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Manos, Dos

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• Le geai pare   des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Plumas

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• Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Food, Smell, Cooking

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, David Garnett, Richard Garnett (1994). “Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters”, Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd

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• Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.

  Virginia Woolf

  Drama, Flower, Wine

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.56, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Vegetables, Fancy, Fruit

  "Lilly Pulitzer, designer of trademark tropical dresses, dies aged 81", www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2013.

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• It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, People, Tails

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• It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Fall, Gay, Pride

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). "Las obras de Anne Bradstreet", Belknap Pr

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• 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

  Strong, Bait, Bass

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• Women are a source of energy in life. I've always wanted to be in a war or baseball movie, but the thought of having no women on set for six months - that's hell. 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

  Baseball, War, Men

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• Mi corazón es como un pájaro cantor cuyo nido está en un brote de agua; Mi corazón es como un manzano cuyas ramas están curvadas con gruesos frutos; Mi corazón es como una concha de arco iris que rema en un mar de luna; Mi corazón está más contento que todos estos, porque mi amor ha venido a mí. Levántame un daïs de seda y plumón; Cuélgalo con vair y tintes púrpuras; Tállalo en palomas y granadas, Y pavos reales con cien ojos; Trabajalo en uvas de oro y plata, En hojas y flores de lis de plata; Porque el cumpleaños de mi vida Ha llegado, mi amor ha llegado a mí.

  Christina Rossetti

  Vida, Trabajo, Ojo

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, "Un cumpleaños"

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• 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

  Appreciate, Ordinary, Exotic

  Victoria Finlay (2002). “Color: A Natural History of the Palette”

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• British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

  Tom Ford

  Men, Style, Levels

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• Puedo vivir sin todo eso: el amor con su bombeo de sangre, el sexo con sus hambres desordenadas, los hombres con su pavoneo de pavo real, su tonto equipaje sexual, sus lenguas húmedas en mi oído.

  Erica Jong

  Amor, Sexo, Tonto

  Erica Jong (2013). "Convertirse en luz: Poemas nuevos y seleccionados", p.238, Open Road Media.

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• The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cities, Clothes

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• 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

  Strong, Jason, Body

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• 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

  Pride, Color, Doe

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

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