Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a French nobleman, novelist, and military pilot, wrote and illustrated “The Little Prince,” a famous novella.
The narrative of the story centers around a pilot who crashes in the Sahara Desert and then meets a little boy whose name was the Little Prince.
The book delves on a wide range of topics, including love, loneliness, friendship, and the ultimate meaning of life, via its tale.
Below you will find an amazing collection of quotes from The Little Prince book.
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The Little Prince Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“Ephemeral” It means ‘which is in danger of speedy disappearance.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water…” ~ 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).
“You know…my flower…I’m responsible for her. And she’s so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world…” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“You’re not a man, you’re a mushroom!” ~ 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-Exupery, The Little Prince.
“You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You – only you – will have stars that can laugh.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito.
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Quotes from 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).
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” ~ 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).
“The only things you learn are the things you tame.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“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 (The Little Prince).
Famous The Little Prince Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“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).
“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).
“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 (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).
“My life is very monotonous,” the fox said. “I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again…” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes…” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
Top The Little Prince Quotes
“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).
“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).
“I was too young to know how to love her.” ~ 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).
“What does tamed mean? It’s something that’s been too often neglected. It means to create ties.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“The house, the stars, the desert — what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
Popular The Little Prince Quotes
“Words are the source of misunderstandings.” ~ 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).
“When someone blushes, doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?” ~ 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).
“I am who I am and I have the need to be.” ~ 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).
“To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (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).
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“No one has tamed you and you haven’t tamed anyone. You’re the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I’ve made him my friend, and now he’s the only fox in the world.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
Great The Little Prince Quotes
“To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no
longer interested in anything but figures..” ~ Saint Exupery, The Little Prince.
“Only the children know what they are looking for.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“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).
“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.” ~ 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).
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again.” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince.
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
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