peacocks quotes

Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Glory of the Garden'.

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

-John Ruskin
^3  The Stones ofVenice, vol.i, ch.2.