Proud

Famous quotes containing the word proud:

“What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“A mead
Bordered about with warbling water brooks.
A maid
Laughing the love-laugh with me; proud of looks.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“But he thought of his sisters, proud and cold,
And his mother, vain of her rank and gold.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)