Peacock Sayings and Quotes

The peacock takes pride in his radiant-hued tail. When we’re feeling great about ourselves, we too want to show it off. If we’re having a particularly good hair day, or pleased with an outfit, we flaunt it. Strut your stuff with the collection of wise and humorous peacock quotes below.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Janette Rallison
And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon Ally Carter
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. George Washington
Have you ever seen a bird with a large fan of colorful feathers marching aroung the zoo? That beautiful bird is a peacock. Suzanne Buckingham
Peacocks are the male bird of peafowl family. Suzanne Buckingham
The peacock is best known for its beautiful, large and colorful tail. Suzanne Buckingham
The peacock generally opens its tail when it is trying to catch the eye of the female. Suzanne Buckingham
WHAT'S riches to him That has made a great peacock With the pride of his eye? The wind-beaten, stone-grey and desolate three rock would nourish his whim. William Butler Yeats
Suddenly a peacock screams. My heart shocks and stops; Sweat, cold corpse-sweat Covers my rigid body. Stephen Vincent Benet
The peacock has a score of eyes, With which he cannot see; The cod-fish has a silent sound. Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Peacock they assault again, And strip him of his glitt'ring Train. Mary Barber
That Peacocks ever were allow'd To shew their Beauty to the Croud. Mary Barber
Dance with each peacock that you encountered in your life in such a way; as if there wasn't going to be another peacock ever to be born as vividly charismatic. Nikhil Parekh
O what if gardens where the peacock strays With delicate feet upon old terraces, Or else all Juno from an urn displays Before the indifferent garden deities; William Butler Yeats
All the colours in the rainbow All the colours in the rainbow Half the lustre of his feathers Would turn twenty coxcombs vain. Charles Lamb
I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say: Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay. William Butler Yeats
He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light. William Butler Yeats
A sea the purple of the peacock's neck is paled to greenish azure as Dürer changed the pine green of the Tyrol to peacock blue and guinea gray. Marianne Moore
Everytime the peacock unveiled its feathers to a vivaciously full plumage; spell-bindingly enticing even the most drearily forlorn entity; in its redolently effulgent swirl, Nikhil Parekh
Where, blue as any peacock's neck, the Tyrrhene Ocean shines, You'll go where laurel crowns are won, but--will you e'er forget. Rudyard Kipling
Hast thou given a peacock goodly wings, To please his foolishness? Sit down at the heart of men and things, Companion of the Press! Rudyard Kipling
At times an eternally frolicking peacock vividly flirting behind the hills; while at times fretting and fuming in the aisles of treacherously betraying morbidity, Nikhil Parekh
I hear the bright peacock in glimmering woodlands Cry to its mate in the dawn; Sarojini Naidu
Sing! peacock on the orchard wall, Or tree-toad by the trickling spring! Sing! every bird on every bough-- James Whitcomb Riley
At pomp and fuss-and-feathers while you jeer, Each member of your order tries to graft A peacock's tail upon his barren rear, Ambrose Bierce
The peacock under pelting rain had never seemed so majestic before; with the kingly plumage of its feathers captivating me in complete mind, body and soul, Nikhil Parekh
If I perceived myself as a peacock; then I was indeed a pompous bird; blossoming my armory of vivacious feathers ingratiatingly towards the sky, Nikhil Parekh