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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
— Jules Verne
A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk
— Anne Perry
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
— Simone Weil
She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix. — William Shakespeare
She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,
Were man as rare as Phoenix. — William Shakespeare
A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.
— Stanislaw Lem
Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
At first, I felt proud when someone said 'Your work looks like a man did it.' Then I realized that was stupid
— Annette Messager
He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through
and proud of it. — Patricia Cori
and proud of it. — Patricia Cori
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
— William Hazlitt
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
— William Hazlitt
He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.
— Victor Hugo
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
— Laurence J. Peter
The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.
— John Muir
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.
— Melyssa Winchester
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
— Martial
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
— Will Rogers
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
— Irving Paul Lazar
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
— Demosthenes
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
— Jane Austen
I'm an openly gay man playing an omnisexual hero, who is loved on both sides of the Atlantic. How could I not be proud of that?
— John Barrowman
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
— Richard Baxter
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
— Eric Cantona
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
— Hannah More
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
— Confucius
A father's only dream is to hear his daughter ask to kill some zombies. Go for it, sweetie. Make this old man proud.
— Tahnee Fritz
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
— Baruch Spinoza
It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it.
— Robin Hobb
Proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.
— Ricky Martin
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
— Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
I'm strong and proud, and the luckiest man alive.
— Nicholas Sparks
he was too proud a man to be a vain one.
— Walter Scott
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
— Anthony De Mello
Every man in this room wants you, Caro. I'm so fucking proud, I can't stop smiling.
— Jane Harvey-Berrick
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence.
— Neil Fox
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
— William Shakespeare
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
— Marguerite De Navarre
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
— Anthony Trollope
It's a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn't proud to be it.
— Daniel Polansky
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
— Ed Gillespie
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.
— Laurence Sterne
I want you to know, this man - the man you are now - he is a man you can be proud of.
— Jay Crownover
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
— Hans Selye
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
— Farhan Akhtar
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
— Socrates
What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.
— Jonny Wilkinson
I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.
— Alexandre Dumas
The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God;
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I don't think a man who is fifteen years younger than me should tell me he is proud of me unless he is my sober coach or my time-travel dad.
— Amy Poehler
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
— William Shakespeare
I'm amazed to form part of this amazing universe and I'm proud of the hunger that keeps me awake. Because when man is full he falls asleep.
— Facundo Cabral
A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.
— Sir Fulke Greville
What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
— Michael Finley
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
— Thomas Merton
This was life as it should be lived - proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.
— Terry Goodkind
The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself. — Joseph Hall
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself. — Joseph Hall
I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.
— Abdul Sattar Edhi
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
— Michel De Montaigne
I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.
— Louis MacNeice
If a man is proud of you in public, he will always be proud of you.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
— H.G.Wells
A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.
— Angela Elwell Hunt
If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everything should take place slowly and incorrectly so that man doesn't get a chance to start feeling proud, so that man is sad and perplexed.
— Venedikt Erofeev
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
— Ethel Mumford
I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.
— Catherine Ashton
They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.
— Michael Heseltine
I will never see my little boy again," she finished. "But I am proud of the man he became.
— Christopher G. Nuttall
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
— Alexander Smith
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity! -
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
— Donald Miller
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
— Honore De Balzac
Is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.Nat. Hist., ii. 7.]
— Michel De Montaigne
A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States - Barack America!
— Joe Biden
He made himself and what he made is one damn fine man. I am so proud to call him my brother I am bursting with it when I see him.
— Abbi Glines
He was a proud union man, firmly believing that the courage of a few men could prevent the suffering of thousands.
— Anthony Colombo
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
— John Dryden
He was a fine man, my dear, but what is better, he was a brave and an honest one, and I was proud to be his friend.
— Louisa May Alcott
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
— William Shakespeare
But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep. — William Shakespeare
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep. — William Shakespeare
I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.
— Common
I know myself a Man
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. — Sir John Davies
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. — Sir John Davies