proud as a peacock

In another year, stories about the strange new face of an A-list actress might draw chortles and cackles.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.

You never cared—you were too proud to care; and when I spoke to you about my fault, you did n't even know what I meant.

He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.