Pope Francis

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Argentinian Clergyman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.

Austrian Musician

John Ruskin

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

English Writer

Raveena Tandon

The purpose of an actress is not to just look beautiful and strut around like a peacock but act, too.

Indian Actress

RJ Barrett

Whenever I can put a fresh, clean suit on, I'm like a peacock. That's my most confident moment.

Canadian Athlete

Van Wyck Brooks

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

American Critic

Bidzina Ivanishvili

There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.

Georgian Businessman

Matthew Williamson

My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.

British Designer

Oscar Wilde

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Irish Poet

Rex Orange County

English Musician

The term 'peacock' refers specifically to the male bird; females are called peahens.

Gender Specific

Peacocks fan out their feathers as a courtship display to attract peahens.

Mating Display

Peacocks symbolize beauty, pride, and luxury in various cultures.

Cultural Symbol

When calling someone a 'peacock', it's a metaphor for showiness, not literal.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'peacock' to describe a person often implies disapproval of their vanity.

Negative Connotation

Referring to a person as a peacock is informal and more common in spoken language.

Colloquial Language

 with its forest backdrop. An ostrich stretches its wings over its nest to shade its young. A peacock displays its magnificent tail feathers to attract peahens. Feathers could have served these functions for dinosaurs too. Exactly how feathered dinosaurs took flight is still a bit of a mystery.

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 on the ground I'm sure you've seen how the ground there very majestic when they walk and the feathers how they stick out behind their heads and he said that tail feather there it is very unique it doesn't remind me the peacock because when she got her wings out she doesn't

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 Which is an amazing fossil fuel savings, if we were to just put that on the edge of a wing. Color without this peacock is creating color with shape. Light comes through, it bounces back off the layers; it's called thin-film interference. Imagine being able

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 themselves can see much more including infrared and ultraviolet dinosaurs are after all just one branch of a long line of colorful creatures scientists had discovered that some birds like the flashy peacock have a secret lair to

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 destroyed and at this point in time we don't want to put holes in in our important documents we're showing it now in the unexpected setting of whistlers peacock room because that's how Charles freer showed it when it was in his

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 They're not like a peacock where you have the boys display and the females go, maybe you, not sure, they all do it at the same time. But putting yourself out there doesn't always go according to plan. Timing is everything.

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 Instead of a fitness indicator, scientists invoke a handicap principle. The most commonly cited example of a handicap is the peacock's tail. This beautiful but cumbersome tail doesn't exactly help the peacock

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 and his brother, the athletic warlord of the gods, Kartikeya. The two brothers one day decided to go on a race, three times around the world. Kartikeya leapt on his peacock and flew around the continents