The Little Prince

Saint-Exupéry On Adults

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• All grown-ups began life as children, though few of them remember this.

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• The way you dress correlates to how grown-ups think of you.

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• Grown-ups love to talk about numbers. When you tell them you have made a new friend, they never ask for the essential information.

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• If you say to grown-ups, 'I've seen a beautiful house made of pink bricks, with geraniums in the windows', they won't be able to visualize it. It would be best if you said, 'I've seen a house worth a hundred pounds.' Then they will exclaim, 'What a beautiful house!'

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Saint-Exupéry On Authority

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• Authority rests primarily on reasonableness.

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• For a king, things are straightforward. Everyone is a subject.

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Saint-Exupéry On Growth

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• It is much more difficult to judge yourself than to judge others. If you can judge yourself accurately, it means you have true wisdom.

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• It's easy to put off things you have to do.

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• Sadness is such a mysterious place.

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• 'What's a ritual?' said the little prince. 'It's something most people have forgotten about,' said the fox. 'It's what makes one day different from another, one hour from another hour.'

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• How will you ever know what a butterfly is like if you can't put up with a few caterpillars?

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• It's time you've spent on your rose that makes your rose so precious.

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Saint-Exupéry On Humans

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• People take up only a tiny part of Earth.

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• 'Where are all the people?' asked the little prince. 'It's rather lonely in the desert.' 'It's rather lonely among people, too,' said the snake.

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• People are never happy where they are.

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• People no longer have time to get to know anything. They buy everything ready-made from shops. But since there are no friend shops, people no longer have any friends.

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Saint-Exupéry On Relationships

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• If you tame me, then we'll need each other. You'll be unique to me, and I'll be unique to you.

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• You're responsible for whatever you tame.

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• Only the heart sees clearly. The eyes don't know what's important.

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• Whether it's a house, the stars or a desert, what makes it beautiful is invisible.

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Saint-Exupéry On Show-Offs

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• To a show-off, other people are admirers.

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• Show-offs hear only praise.