Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry was a French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator... (wikipedia)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery — French Novelist born on June 29, 1900, died on July 31, 1944
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
1. And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
2. You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of freshwater.
3. 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.
4. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
5. Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
6. 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.
7. He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
11. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
12. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
13. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
14. What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well.
15. The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
16. If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.
17. 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.
18. Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.
19. Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
20. I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
21. You know-one loves the sunset, when one is so sad.
22. Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
23. 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 proof that he exists.
24. It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
25. The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
26. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom
27. One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
28. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
29. A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
30. Ephemeral' means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
31. The only things you learn are the things you tame
32. You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
33. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
34. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
35. Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while.
36. No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.