People Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It is lonely when you're among people, too”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Man is, above all, he who creates.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“And all roads go to where there are people.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of…

— 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

I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery