The Little Prince

Book · 5 characters · 538 quotes · 2013

Quotes from The Little Prince

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"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."
The Little Prince Hope
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"You become responsible forever for what you've tamed."
The Fox
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"All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it."
The Narrator (Pilot) Philosophy
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
The Fox Wisdom
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"In the end, all stories begin with a single star."
The Narrator (Pilot) Imagination
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"Your time must be yours, or it means nothing."
The Fox Time
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"The aching heart knows what the restless mind seeks."
The Narrator (Pilot) Wisdom
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"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves."
The Little Prince Wisdom
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"To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction."
The Fox Love
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"The night sky belongs to those who dream."
The Narrator (Pilot) Dreams
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"It matters very much which sheep it is."
The Little Prince Wisdom
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"A person is nothing at all without his flowers."
The Little Prince Love
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"What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere."
The Narrator (Pilot) Beauty
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"The baobabs are a menace. They must be destroyed."
The Little Prince Nature
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"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups and I have seen them intimately."
The Narrator (Pilot) Wisdom
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"Your flower taught me that beauty is fragile."
The Little Prince Beauty
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"The thing that counts is not what we possess, but what we are."
The Narrator (Pilot) Wisdom
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"One must demand nothing of the ones we love."
The Narrator (Pilot) Love
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"The essential becomes invisible when you stop tending to it."
The Fox
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"Stars cannot be counted, but they can be loved."
The Little Prince Imagination
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"My rose is unique because of all the care I have given her."
The Little Prince Love
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"It is a riddle that matters, not the answer."
The Narrator (Pilot) Wisdom
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"The most beautiful things in the universe are not seen but felt."
The Fox Beauty
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"You men are strange creatures."
The Little Prince Humor
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"The meaning of life is whatever you make of it."
The Narrator (Pilot) Philosophy
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"He was a little lonelier than before."
The Narrator (Pilot) Solitude
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"Arithmetic! You have such a way of reducing everything to numbers."
The Little Prince Philosophy
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"I understand now why the prince was sad."
The Narrator (Pilot) Wisdom
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"Drawing brings me to language."
The Narrator (Pilot) Art
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"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing, and yet something radiates silently."
The Narrator (Pilot) Solitude