Chapter 1
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...
Chapter 2
“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...
Chapter 3
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...
Chapter 4
I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! (4.1)
Chapter 5
As each day passed I would learn, in our talk, something about the little prince’s planet, his departure from it, his journey. The information would come very slowly, as it might chance to fall f...
Chapter 6
Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life… For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset. I lea...
Chapter 7
On the fifth day—again, as always, it was thanks to the sheep—the secret of the little prince’s life was revealed to me. Abruptly, without anything to lead up to it, and as if the question ha...
Chapter 8
But she interrupted herself at that point. She had come in the form of a seed. She could not have known anything of any other worlds. Embarrassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of s...
Chapter 9
He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness. “Of course I love y...
Chapter 10
“Exactly. One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform,” the king went on. “Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw t...
Chapter 11
“Ah! Ah! I am about to receive a visit from an admirer!” he exclaimed, from afar, when he first saw the little prince coming.For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. (11.2-3)
Chapter 13
“Certainly. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a...
Chapter 14
As the little prince watched him, he felt that he loved this lamplighter who was so faithful to his orders. He remembered the sunsets which he himself had gone to seek, in other days, merely by pul...
Chapter 15
“Geographies,” said the geographer, “are the books which, of all books, are most concerned with matters of consequence. They never become old-fashioned. It is very rarely that a mountain chan...
Chapter 17
The grown-ups, to be sure, will not believe you when you tell them that. They imagine that they fill a great deal of space. They fancy themselves as important as the baobabs. You should advise them...
Chapter 18
“Men?” she [the earth flower] echoed. “I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. Th...
Chapter 20
“Who are you?” he demanded, thunderstruck.“We are roses,” the roses said.And he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe....
Chapter 21
“Please—tame me!” he said.“I want to very much,” the little prince replied. “But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.”“One only u...
Chapter 24
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” (24.19)
Chapter 25
I had drunk the water. I breathed easily. At sunrise the sand is the colour of honey. And that honey colour was making me happy, too. What brought me, then, this sense of grief? (25.20)
Chapter 26
“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open...
Chapter 27
And now six years have already gone by… I have never yet told this story. The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive. I was sad, but I told them: “I am tired.”No...
Epilogue
This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on page 88, but I have drawn it again to impress it on your memory. It is here that the little prince appear...