War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Must be some missing, though, to my way of thinking. The ones you win a war with. Have some supper?” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“When I got back to my billet I found my farmer at table with his wife and niece. “Tell me,” I said… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“For after all, why do we go on fighting? If we die for democracy then we must be one of the democracies.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
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 Image
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image