Quotes about French Pride

Charles de Gaulle

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomiting. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

John Maynard Keynes

Clemenceau had one illusion—France; and one disillusion—mankind, including Frenchmen

Alain Juppe

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

Francois Hollande

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

Janine di Giovanni

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

Eric Cantona

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

John Gunther

France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.

Bernard Pivot

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Pierre Jean de Beranger

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

Jules Michelet

The day France remembers that she was and must be the salvation of the human race, when she gathers her children about her and teaches them France as faith and religion, that day she will once again be alive, and as firm as the earth itself.

Brigitte Bardot

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Gordon Ramsay

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

Nicolas Sarkozy

You are the eternal France, I love you.

Pierre Laval

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

Jacques Chirac

France is a beacon for the human race. The nation and its people may be loved or hated, but they can never be ignored.

Jean-Pierre Chevenement

We must return to the French the pride of being French.

The French have for over 1000 years had a nationalistic ego that was, compared to other countries, very extreme. Highly nationalistic Frenchmen have almost always felt that the French were not proud enough of their exalted role in the history of human civilization. De Gaulle was the most extreme but Chevenement was not too far behind.