I leave you the best phrases of the Little Prince about love, the fox, the rose, life, adults, friendship, improvement and much more. It is the third best-selling book in history, after The Bible and Karl Marx's Capital.
Its author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a pioneering pilot of modern aviation. The impression of the death of his 15-year-old brother from rheumatic fever is reflected at the end of the book.
The main character in the story (the pilot) is obviously based on the writer, since on December 30, 1935 he crashed in the Sahara. The Rose is inspired by his wife Consuelo, and the baobabs symbolize Nazism.
-Saint-Exupéry disappeared on July 31, 1944 during a reconnaissance mission and his whereabouts were never known. As a curiosity, there is a French banknote worth 50 francs in homage to Saint-Exupery.
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The best quotes from The Little Prince
-The essential is invisible to the eyes.
-I wonder if the stars light up so that one day everyone can find their own.
-It was the time you spent with your rose that made it so important.
-Walking in a straight line one cannot get very far.
-When one is very sad, the sunsets are pleasant.
-When a mystery is too impressive, it is impossible to disobey.
-What really beautifies the desert is the well that is hidden somewhere.
-If you come, for example, at four in the afternoon, I'll start to be happy from three.
-He fell in love with its flowers and not its roots, and in autumn he did not know what to do.
- No one is ever happy where he is.
-It will be necessary to support two or three caterpillars, if I want to know the butterflies; I think they are very beautiful.
-It is much more difficult to judge yourself than to judge others. If you can judge yourself well you are a true sage.
-The men? The wind carries them, because they have no roots and not having them causes them bitterness.
-It's crazy to hate all the roses because one pricked you. Giving up all your dreams because one of them didn't come true.
-I lived a lot with older people and I have known them very closely; but this has not greatly improved my opinion of them.
-It is very sad to forget a friend. Not everyone has had one.
-Nothing in the universe remains the same if somewhere, it is not known where, a lamb that we do not know has eaten, or not, a rose.
-You just have to ask each one what each one can give.
-I thought I was rich with a single flower and it turns out that I only have an ordinary rose.
-Baobabs begin by being very small.
-Older people can never understand something by themselves and it is very boring for children to have to give them explanations again and again.
-Only children smash their noses against the glass.
-Nobody believed him because of the way he dressed. Older people are like that.
-The little prince, who asked me many questions, never seemed to hear mine.
-Having a friend is a true privilege and if you forget them you run the risk of becoming like older people who are only interested in figures and numbers.
-On the planet of the little prince there were, as in all planets, good herbs and bad herbs and, therefore, seeds of both.
-The baobabs must be removed as soon as they are distinguished from the rose bushes because they are very similar when they are small.
-If a lamb eats bushes, it will also eat the flowers, right?
-The flowers are weak. They are naive. They defend themselves as best they can and the thorns are their defense.
-If someone loves a flower of which there is only one copy among millions and millions of stars, it is enough to look at the sky to be happy because he can say with satisfaction: "My flower is there, somewhere…"
-I should have judged her by her actions and not by her words.
-It will be necessary to endure the annoyance of two or three caterpillars, if I want to know the butterflies; I think they are very beautiful.
-Whether the volcanoes are extinct or wake up is the same for us. The interesting thing is the mountain of the volcano and it never changes
-The men get on the trains but they don't know where they are going. They don't know what they want or what to look for.
-It's the same with the flower. If you want a flower that lives in a star, it is very sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars have flourished.
-I can judge myself anywhere and I have no need to live here.
-To the vain all other men are admirers.
-Okay! I admire you, but what is it for?
-I drink to forget that I'm a drunk.
- It is useful, then, for my volcanoes and for my flower that I possess them. But you, you are not useful to the stars…
-He's the only one who doesn't seem ridiculous to me, perhaps because he deals with something else and not with himself.
-I'll look at you askance and you won't say anything. The word is a source of misunderstandings.
-Only children know what they are looking for. They waste time with a rag doll that is the most important thing to them and if they take it away, they cry.
-What a strange planet! It is dry, sharp and salty. And men lack imagination; they just repeat what they are told.
-The men get into the rapids but they don't know where they are going or what they want. Then they toss and turn.
-It was only a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I made him my friend and now he is unique in the world.
-I shouldn't pay attention to him, you never have to pay attention to the flowers, just look at them and smell them. My flower embalmed the planet, but I didn't know how to enjoy it.
-Of course, as we know how to understand life, we quietly make fun of numbers. I would have liked to start this story in the manner of fairy tales.
-The soil of the planet of the little prince was infested with baobab seeds that
if they are not uprooted they have just emerged and as soon as they are recognized, they can cover the whole planet, pierce it with their roots and, if the planet is very small and the baobabs are many, they blow it up.
-If you ever travel this may be of great use to you. Sometimes it is okay to put off work a little later; but in the case of baobabs, the delay is always fatal.
-Only what is domesticated is well known. Men no longer have time to know anything; they buy everything already done. And since stores don't sell friends, men no longer have friends. If you want to have a friend, then you must tame me!
-People have stars but they don't mean the same to everyone. For some, those who travel, the stars are their guides. For others they are just little lights. For the wise, the stars are a matter of study and for my businessman, they were gold.
-And there is the great mystery. For you who love the little prince, the same as for me, nothing in the universe will have changed if, anywhere, who knows where, an unknown lamb has eaten or has not eaten a rose…
-The elderly like figures very much. When they are told about a new friend, they never ask essential questions such as: “What tone is his voice? What games do you prefer? o Whether or not he likes to collect butterflies? » Instead they ask, 'How old is he? How many brothers? How much does it weigh? How much does your father earn? Only with these details do they think they know him.
-My drawing did not represent a hat. It represented a boa snake that digests an elephant. So I drew the inside of the boa snake so that older people could understand. These people always need explanations.
-The Earth is not just any planet! There are one hundred and eleven kings (not forgetting, of course, the black kings), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million vain, that is, about two billion of old people.
-When you finish getting ready in the morning, you have to carefully clean the planet. You have to dedicate yourself regularly to uprooting the baobabs, when they are distinguished from the rose bushes, which are very similar when they are small. It is a very tedious but very easy job.
-I know a planet where a very red man lives, who has never smelled a flower or looked at a star and who has never loved anyone. In all his life he has done nothing but sums. And he spends all day repeating like you: "I am a serious man, I am a serious man!"… Apparently this fills him with pride. But that is not a man, it is a mushroom!