Quotes From "The Little Prince" By Unknown

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 you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose. Unknown

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 to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere..' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important? . Unknown

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 things that one tames, ' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.'' What must I do, to tame you?' asked the little prince.' You must be very patient, ' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day.. Unknown

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 inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her... Unknown

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 looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course, " I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart. Unknown

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... Unknown

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.. . Unknown

Good morning, " said the little prince. Good morning, " said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink. Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince. Because they save a tremendous amount of time, " said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week." And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?" Anything you like.." As for me, " said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. Unknown

If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom. Unknown

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose. Unknown

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. Unknown

The only things you learn are the things you tame Unknown

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. Unknown

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. Unknown

One only understands the things that one tames, ” said the fox. “Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.. . Unknown

Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world. Unknown

Conceited people never hear anything but praise. Unknown

She wished to appear only in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh yes, she was quite vain! And her mysterious adornment had lasted days and days. And then one morning, precisely at sunrise, she showed herself. Unknown

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence! ' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! Unknown

It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important... People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose. Unknown

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. Unknown

But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world. Unknown

No one is ever satisfied where he is.... Only the children know what they’re looking for.... Unknown

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible... Unknown

The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.. The desert is beautiful, " the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.. "What makes the desert beautiful, " said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well.." I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands. . Unknown

I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat... Unknown

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present. Unknown

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. Unknown

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 . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh! ' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.. . Unknown

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 were 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. And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look at at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh! ' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you. . Unknown

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. Unknown

I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. Unknown

One day, " you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times! " And a little later you added:" You know-- one loves the sunet, 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. Unknown

Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult. Unknown

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. Unknown

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. Unknown

Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversationagain. “It is a little lonely in the desert.. . ”“It is also lonely among men, ” the snake said. Unknown