“The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower . . .” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“He spoke again: “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“My flower is ephemeral," the little prince said to himself, "and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don't find what they're looking… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Of course I love you," the flower said to him. "It is my fault that you have not known it all the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“but the flower continued her beauty preparations in the shelter of her green chamber, selecting her colors with greatest care and dressing… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une étoile, c'esit doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les étoiles… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“The little prince, who was present at the first appearance of a huge bud, felt at once that some sort of miraculous… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Flowers are weak, they are naive. They reassure themselves as best as they can. They think they are being frightening, with their… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes... And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“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'...'And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“You know--my flower . . . I am responsible for her. And she is so weak! She is so naïve! She has… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“Stretched out before the fire I looked at the glowing fruit and said to myself that men did not know what an orange was.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
