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 rich man goes out yachting,
Where sanctity can’t pursue him;
The poor goes afloat
In a fourpenny boat,
Where the bishop groans to view him.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)

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