"The furnace, whirring and stinking to itself, reminded him pleasantly that snow on the roof reduced the fuel bill." (John Updike, "Married Life." The Early Stories: 1953-1975. "A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." (Henry Morgan). "A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her." (Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom. "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." (Rudyard Kipling). "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." (Cyril Connolly). "Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." (Mark Twain). My wife gave herself and me a second chance. I gave my wife and myself a second chance. (Use me, not myself, if the subject is different from the object.) Roberts gave my wife and me a second chance. (Use I, not myself, as a subject pronoun.)ĭr. My wife and I just moved to San Francisco. (Use myself, not me, if the subject and object are the same.) They should be proud of themselves for completing the job. (See Singular They. )Įveryone should be proud of themself for completing the job. Note that "themself" has been used for a long time to avoid the awkwardness of selecting one gender. 
(*Everyone is singular, but increasingly occurs in plural agreement.) (This is used if I was not involved with his success.)Įveryone should be proud of himself / herself / oneself / *themselves for completing the job. I applaud him for completing the Hour of Code lesson.
(Someone feels satisfaction for doing something well either by oneself or in cooperation with others.) I am proud of myself for completing the Hour of Code lesson. (hisself is a dialectal variant nonstandard) A man needs to be comfortable with himself before he can be comfortable with anyone else.
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