Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

About Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.
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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 ...

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All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problem...

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It would have been better to come back at the same time of the day,'said the fox. 'For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, when three o'clock strikes I shall begin to feel happy. The closer our time approaches, the happier I shall feel. B...

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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 frien...

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Voilà mon secret. Il est très simple: On ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

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

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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.

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People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for.

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Het wezenlijke is voor het oog onzichtbaar, alleen met je hart kan je goed zien.

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

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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves and it is rather tedious for children to have to explain things to them time and again.

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What is essential is invisible to the eye.

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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 o...

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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

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What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

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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 ...

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I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

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No one is ever satisfied where he is.

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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

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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...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAntoine de Saint-Exupery
  • DescriptionFrench writer and aviator
  • AliasesAntoine de Saint-Exupéry; Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  • BornJune 29, 1900
  • DiedJuly 31, 1944
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAviator; Poet; Novelist; Autobiographer; Journalist; Children's Writer; Essayist; Writer
  • WorksNight Flight
  • AwardsMort Pour La France; Prix Femina; National Book Award; Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Académie Française