75 quotes found
“Flowers are so inconsistent!”
“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
“The only things you learn are the things you tame”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“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.”
“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 y...”
“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...”
“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 t...”
“Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the t...”
“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 inco...”
“You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...”
“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
“People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're lookin...”
“I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“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...”
“Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.”
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
“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 ar...”
