“The little Prince” was written in 1943 by the French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry while staying at a hotel in New York.
The Little Prince was included among the best of the 20th century in France and It has been translated into more than two hundred and fifty languages and dialectsincluding the braille system.
Although it is considered a children’s book due to the way it is written, The Little Prince is a book profound criticism of adulthood.
The best quotes from ‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In The Little Prince the author builds his own the best phrases through often disconcerting dialogues, which are shrouded in an aura of fantasy.
This is how children’s experiences, their perceptions, desires and weaknesses can be perceived and compared with those of adults.
- “All the elders were children at first, though few of them remember it.”
- “It doesn’t look good if you don’t do it from the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye”.
- “It was nothing more than a fox similar to a hundred thousand others. But I made friends with it and now it is unique in the world.”
- “If you tame me, we will need each other. For me you will be unique in the world, for you I will be unique in the world…”
The fox is one of the key characters in the story of The Little Prince. Photo: Depositphotos- “The time you wasted on your rose makes your rose so important.”
- “The flowers are weak. They are naive. They defend themselves as best they can. They think they’re terrible with their thorns…”
- “It’s madness to hate all the roses because one stung you. To give up all your dreams because one of them didn’t come true.”
Other quotes for the family and friends of ‘The Little Prince’
In The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry talks about buoys, kings, friendship, astronomers, planets and geographers.
Ownership and patents: “When you find a diamond that is nobody’s, it’s yours. When you find an island that’s nobody’s, it’s yours. When you’re the first to have an idea, you patent it: it’s yours. And I own the stars, because no one before me has ever thought of owning them.
Geographers and explorers: “It is not the geographer who will count the cities, the rivers, the mountains, the seas, the oceans and the deserts. The geographer is too important to go around. He does not leave his desk. But there he receives the explorers. The “questions and takes note of their memories. And if the memories of any of them seem interesting to him, the geographer has an investigation carried out on the moral integrity of the explorer.”
The Little Prince is the most read French book in history. Photo: Shutterstock.The big blue planet: “To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity, a veritable army of four hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred and eleven lamplighters had to be maintained on it, on all six continents. Seen from a distance it looked like a splendid effect.”
Source: Clarin
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