Be proud Quote by William Alexander Percy

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

— Marine Le Pen

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

— Janine di Giovanni

The French courage proceeds from vanity

— Lord Byron

“She was a French rose growing wild amid the hothouse flowers of London.”

— Sabrina Jeffries

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of…

— William Butler Yeats

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then…

— Robert O. Paxton

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon

“There might be a war on, there might be Nazi tanks on the Champs Elysées and Jews rounded up in the Marais, but this…

— Lavie Tidhar

“I will conclude this chapter with a remark that I am sincerely proud to be able to make—and glad, as well, that my comrades…

— Mark Twain

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

— Jeanine Basinger

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

— Mick LaSalle