Top 45 Exupery Little Prince Quotes
#1. Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince)
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#2. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world
- the little prince
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#3. No one is ever satisfied where he is ... Only the children know what they're looking for ...
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#4. When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend.
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#8. What have you come to Earth for?'
'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said.
'Ah!' said the snake.
And they were both silent.
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#9. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens ... they will all be your friends.
-the little prince
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#10. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
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#12. It is a question of discipline," the little prince said to me later on. "When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.
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#13. One sees clearly only with the heart, anything that is essential is invisible to the eye.- The Little Prince
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#14. It is your own fault, said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . .
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#15. Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation
again. "It is a little lonely in the desert ... "
"It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
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#16. And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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#17. One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"
And a little later you added:
"You know
one loves the sunset, when one is so sad ... "
"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"
But the little prince made no reply.
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#18. One day I saw the sun set forty-four times!' And a little later you added, 'You know, when you're feeling very sad, sunsets are wonderful ... '
'On the day of the forty-four times, were you feeling very sad?'
But the little prince didn't answer.
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#19. What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well ...
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#20. One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'
And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'
'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'
But the prince made no answer.
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#22. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
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#23. I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower ... I think that she has tamed me ...
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#27. Quote #2
I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted.
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#29. And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.
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#30. I admire you", said the little prince, with a little shrug of his shoulders, "but what is there about my admiration that interests you so much?
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#32. Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?"
"I solve them all" said the snake
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#33. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom.
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#34. At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully ... " Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.
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#35. ...In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing
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#36. My flower is ephemeral, thought little prince. And she only has four thorns for protection! And I've left her all alone! That
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#37. 4 I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! But
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#38. My flower is ephemeral," the little prince said to himself, "and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone!"
That was his first moment of regret. But he took courage once more.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again
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#41. What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them ... On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak ...
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#42. Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round ...
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#43. For my part,' said the little prince to himself, 'if I had fifty-three minutes to spare, I would take my time walking slowly towards the nearest fountain of water.
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#44. What the little prince would not admit to himself was that he was sorry to leave this planet, blessed as it was with one thousand and four hundred and forty sunsets every day.
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#45. If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flower with thorn?
even a flower with thorns.
then what's the good of thorns?
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