Peacock

Famous quotes containing the word peacock:

“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)

“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)

“Ancient sculpture is the true school of modesty. But where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)