The Little Prince Quotes

It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by...

“This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside.”I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge: “That is exactly the way I wanted it! Do you think that th...

“That doesn’t matter. Where I live, everything is so small!”And, with perhaps a hint of sadness, he added:“Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far…” (3.28-30)

The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Thus you can imag...

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep....

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside...

That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-up...