Men Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He who never says "no" is no true man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is, above all, he who creates.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery