Famous quotes containing the words peacock and/or company:
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)