Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
― —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world"

- the little prince”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight

“Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un.
(If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“Life is chaotic, savage, and literature should be a reflection of that.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Prince of the Skies