Quotes From The Little Prince
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"I am who I am and I have the need to be."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
""What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
The Little Prince Quotes About Love
"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
The Little Prince Rose Quotes
"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
The Little Prince Quotes About Grown Ups
"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
The Little Prince Friendship Quotes
"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"To Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
The Little Prince Fox Quotes
"But if you tame me, then we
shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I
shall be unique in all the world."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)