The Little Prince Quotes

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

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

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . .

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

~ —Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship.

~ Juan Gelman

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn't that important? If a person loves a flower that is the only one of its kind on all the millions and millions of stars, then gazing at the night sky is enough to make him happy. He says to himself My flower is out there somewhere. But if the lamb eats the flower, then suddenly it's as if all the stars had stopped shining. Isn't that important?

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appeared on Earth, and disappeared.Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognise it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if you should come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince)

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry