“And that's how the Peacock saved the Chameleon”
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
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American writer 1974Related quotes
“The dance of the peacock attracts not only the peahen but also the human.”
The Loom of Time (2016)
“I felt afraid.
And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.”
"Domination of Black"
Harmonium (1923)
Context: I saw how the night came,
Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks.
I felt afraid.
And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.
“Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“Go you and, with such glorious hues,
Live with proud peacocks in green parks.”
The Kingfisher
Also misattributed to John Steinbeck.
Source: The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, v. 1-3
“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!”
Letter https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2743.xml to Asa Gray, 3 April 1860
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
“Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.”
Source: My Double Life
Volume I, chapter II, section 17.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Variant: Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
Context: You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.