A proud man hath many crosses. [ Proverb ]
The proud man is forsaken of God. [ Plato ]
As proud come behind as go before. [ Proverb ]
A very proud man is always wilful. [ Proverb ]
Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud. [ Proverb ]
There is a proud modesty in merit. [ Dryden ]
Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]
Proud peacocks, all noise and shew. [ Proverb ]
To lordlings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall;
Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall. [ Gay ]
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud. [ William Shakespeare ]
There's a proud modesty in merit!
Averse from asking, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gifts it asks. [ Dryden ]
Every cock is proud on his own dunghill. [ Proverb ]
Some people are proud of their humility. [ Beecher ]
What's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us. [ William Shakespeare ]
The proud are ever most provoked by pride. [ Cowper ]
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! [ William Shakespeare ]
A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met. [ Proverb ]
Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]
Proud men cannot bear with pride in others. [ Proverb ]
Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep. [ Young ]
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. [ Sheridan ]
A proud look makes foul work in a fine face. [ Proverb ]
Assume the proud place your merits have won. [ Horace ]
Yes - the same sin that overthrew the angels,
And of all sins most easily besets
Mortals the nearest to the angelic nature:
The vile are only vain; the great are proud. [ Byron ]
Love the sense of right and wrong confounds;
Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. [ John Dryden ]
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing. [ William Shakespeare ]
How well he fell asleep!
Like some proud river, widening toward the sea;
Calmly and grandly, silently and deep,
Life joined eternity. [ S. T. Coleridge ]
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. [ William Cowper ]
Good counsel makes a proud man and a fool angry. [ Proverb ]
He's a proud fox that will not dig his own hole. [ Proverb ]
Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? [ Beattie ]
The street is full of humiliations to the proud. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The love of praise, however concealed by art
Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart:
The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure;
The modest shun it, but to make it sure. [ Young ]
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]
Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. [ Italian Proverb ]
Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait.
Proclaim their glory, and augment the state;
Hot, envious, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry
Burn, hiss, and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. [ Young ]
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]
Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity. [ St. Augustine ]
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]
Genius! thou gift of Heaven! thou Light divine!
Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine. [ Crabbe ]
He that is too proud to ask is too good to receive. [ Proverb ]
The higher a proud man is raised, the giddier he is. [ Proverb ]
He led on; but thoughts
Seem'd gathering round which troubled him. The veins
Grew visible upon his swarthy brow,
And his proud lip was press'd as if with pain.
He trod less firmly; and his restless eye
Glanc'd forward frequently, as if some ill
He dared not meet were there. [ Willis ]
Proud-crested fiend, the world's worst foe, ambition. [ Bloomfield ]
Likeness begets love, yet proud men hate one another. [ Proverb ]
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. [ Massillon ]
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful. [ George Eliot ]
Be modest without diffidence, proud without presumption. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud. [ Alexander Smith ]
Our virtues would be proud if our vices whipped them not. [ Proverb ]
It is a proud horse that will not carry his own provender. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads. [ William Shakespeare ]
Proud be the rose, with rain and dews her head impearling. [ Wordsworth ]
There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world. [ J. L. Basford ]
A man may have a just esteem of himself without being proud. [ Proverb ]
Humble love, and not proud science keens the door of heaven. [ Young ]
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. [ Burton ]
A proud man uever shows his pride so much as when he is civil. [ Lord Greville ]
When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]
Every one is proud of his office, and bids defiance to the scorner. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
They appear to me of a noble family; they look proud and contented. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frosch in the witches' cellar in "Faust." ]
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. [ H. W. Shaw ]
His eyebrow dark, and eye of fire, showed spirit proud, and prompt to ire. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
To be proud of an hereditary title, is to rant it in a dead man's clothes. [ Proverb ]
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. [ Madame de Girardin ]
He that is proud of his fine clothes, fetches his reputation from his tailor. [ Proverb ]
When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]
Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes before they can put them on. [ Locke ]
Good-bye, proud world; I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. [ Emerson ]
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. [ Wilkie Collins ]
All that the wisdom of the proud can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortune. [ Goldsmith ]
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. [ Landor ]
These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]
Too bad there's not such a thing as a golden skunk, because you'd probably be proud to be sprayed by one. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The sun is in the heaven; and the proud day, attended with the pleasures of the world, is all too wanton. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. [ Cowley ]
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]
Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. [ Bacon ]
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places. [ Shenstone ]
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. [ Daniel Webster ]
Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. [ Colton ]
Pride, in some particular disguise or other - often a secret to be proud himself - is the most ordinary spring of action among men. [ Steele ]
The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. [ Legouve ]
Not the mountain ice, congealed to crystals, is so frosty chaste as thy victorious soul, which conquers man, and man's proud tyrant, passion. [ Dryden ]
You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth. [ Thackeray ]
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Gruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in others, not in themselves. [ Colton ]
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it. [ Bovee ]
Much complaining I often hear raised against the proud bearing of the great. The pride of the great will disappear as soon as we cease our cringing. [ Körner ]
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. [ Emerson ]
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. [ Beecher ]
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. [ Bacon ]
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the rattling of his fetters; for, indeed, clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. [ Thomas Fuller ]
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of. [ Bishop Warburton ]
A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. [ Boileau ]
That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full. [ S. Hieron ]
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. [ George Eliot ]
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
A people that studies its own past, and rejoices in the nation's proud memories, is likely to be a patriotic people, the bulwark of law, and the courageous champion of right in the hour of need. [ Joseph Anderson ]
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. [ Beecher ]
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]
Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]
How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]
It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]
Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]