Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Proud

Proud as a cock.
—Anonymous

Proud as any prince.
—Anonymous

Proud as a Government mule.
—Anonymous

Proud as a king.
—Anonymous

Proud as Lucifer.
—Anonymous

Proud as a popinjay.
—Anonymous

Proud as a Spanish Grandee.
—Anonymous

Proud as a tiger-lily.
—Anonymous

Proud as Juno.
—Anonymous

Proud as Punch.
—Anonymous

Proud as Sheba’s queen.
—Anonymous

Proud as the man who got rich manufacturing soldiers’ shoes out of pasteboard instead of leather.
—Anonymous

Proud as any queen.
—George Barlow

Proud as the Pope behind the peacock-fans.
—Robert Browning

Proud as a freeborn peasant.
—Lord Byron

Proud as a peacock.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Proud as Gascon.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

Proud as all the Guzmans put together.
—Anthony Hamilton

Proud as a peer.
—Bret Harte

Proud as a young bull.
—Richard Le Gallienne

Proud as a hen with one chicken.
—B. Lowsley

Proud as the day is long.
—John Lyly

Proud as a lion when passion-stirred.
—Edwin Markham

Proud as waves that on the beach
Lay their war-crests down and die.
—Thomas Moore

Proud as an emperor.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

Proud as a lord’s bastard.
—English Proverb

As proud as a Highlander.
—Scottish Proverb

Proud as an empress on her marriage-day.
—Charles Sangster

Proud as a boy with a brand-new top.
—John G. Saxe

Proud as an enjoyer.
—William Shakespeare

Proud as a child who will what he would.
—Arthur Symons

Proud as the Bourbons.
—William Makepeace Thackeray