The Little Prince Quotes
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
Only children know what they are looking for.
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.
I have to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to know butterflies.
It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.
One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.
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...
Many of you have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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.
"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.
Judging yourself... that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
"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."
"To establish ties?"
"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. 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...."
All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You - You alone will have 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 will be laughing when you look at the sky at night.. You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! 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... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh.
