“The Little Prince” is the most famous novel by the French writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry. It was published in 1943 and is the most read and translated French book in history.
Apart from being a recommended reading book in the educational system of several countries, “The Little Prince” is a story that contains a great amount of wisdom and basic lessons for life.
Unforgettable phrases from The Little Prince
How many of us have read and enjoyed the adventures of “The Little Prince” when we were children or teenagers?
Being a work so relevant to millions of people We wanted to make a selection of the 80 great phrases from The Little Prince that we should all remember.
1. The first love is loved more, the rest are loved better.
We all learn a lot from our first love, how we want to be treated and how we don’t.
2. Walking in a straight line one cannot get very far.
Whether we like it or not, life takes many turns and we must know how to adapt to each situation.
3. When you find a diamond that doesn’t belong to anyone, it’s yours. When you find an island that doesn’t belong to anyone, it’s yours. When you are the first to have an idea, you patent it: it is yours. I possess the stars because no one before me ever dreamed of possessing them.
There are certain things that are the heritage of all humanity, we cannot be owners of absolutely everything.
4. The little prince, who asked me many questions, never seemed to hear mine.
We must know how to listen to others, it is a very important part of a conversation.
5. You are the owner of your life and your emotions, never forget that. For better and for worse.
We are responsible for everything that happens to us directly or indirectly.
6. It is very sad to forget a friend. Not everyone has had a friend.
Friends are a very rare commodity, having real friends is something very difficult to find.
7. Older people can never understand something on their own and it is very boring for children to have to give them explanations over and over again.
When we are adults we take for granted that we know everything about life and we really don’t.
8. What I see here is just a crust. The most important thing is invisible.
The important things in life are often invisible to the eye, such as emotions, feelings or ideas, for example.
9. Men go into rapids, but they don’t know where they are going or what they want. Then they shake and spin.
Many times we find ourselves involved in situations from which we cannot get out without help.
10. I wonder if the stars light up so that one day, everyone can find their own.
Fighting for our dreams is something we should all do, seek our own happiness.
11. Everyone should be asked what is within their power to do.
Each person has their own limits in life and many of us do not know what our own limits are.
12. All older people were children at first. (Although few of them remember it)
A very apt quote that encourages us to stay in touch with our inner child.
13. Only children know what they are looking for. They waste time with a rag doll that is the most important thing to them and if it is taken away, they cry.
When we are children we are more aware of what exactly we want at that moment, and we can live in the moment much more intensely.
14. It was the time you spent with your rose that made it so important.
The experiences we live with someone are something very valuable, memories that will always remain with us.
15. She is really useful because she is cute.
Knowing how to appreciate beauty is something that can make us very happy in life.
16. You should never listen to flowers. Only the look and smell should. Mine perfumed my planet, but I was not able to rejoice in it.
Many times we don’t realize how lucky we are to have something until we finally lose it.
17. When you look at the sky at night, as I will live in one of them, as I will laugh in one of them, it will be for you as if all the stars were laughing. You and only you will have stars who know how to laugh!
We will always remember those people we loved so much and who are no longer with us.
18. He was nothing more than a fox similar to a hundred thousand others. But I made him my friend and now he is the only one in the world.
Friends are an essential part of who we are and when we lose them it can be very emotionally painful.
19. It will be necessary for me to support two or three caterpillars, if I want to know butterflies; I think they are very beautiful. If not, who will come to visit me? You will be very far away. As for wild beasts, I do not fear them: I have my claws.
On many occasions we must adapt to the situation that life imposes on us, our happiness depends on it.
20. Only things that are domesticated are well known.
Many times, human beings want to impose our will on other living beings and with this we only cause that being to lose its own personality. Is this really what we want?
21. And when you have been consoled (one always ends up being consoled) you will be glad to have known me.
When we accept the loss of a loved one, we begin to be glad that we were lucky enough to have known them. One of the best phrases from The Little Prince.
22. The Earth is not just any planet! It includes one hundred and eleven kings (without forgetting, of course, the black kings), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunks, three hundred and eleven million vain people, that is, around two billion old people.
Without a doubt, the Earth is a planet with a large number of things to discover, how lucky we are!
23. Authority relies first of all on reason. If you order your people to jump into the sea, the people will make the revolution. I have the right to demand obedience, because my orders are reasonable.
How leaders treat their citizens gives them legitimacy or takes it away.
24. I will look at you out of the corner of my eye and you will not say anything. The word is a source of misunderstanding.
Words can often lead to an argument, we must know how to use them carefully.
25. I can judge myself anywhere and I don’t need to live here.
We are free to live wherever we want, when we are not happy in the place where we live we can always look for another better place.
26. For the vain, all other men are admirers.
There are people who only look out for themselves and for whom the rest of us are inferior beings. We must not let vanity or narcissism take over us.
27. I drink to forget that I am a drunk.
Alcoholism can be a very difficult addiction to overcome and one that no one would want to fall into.
28. – And what good is it for you to have the stars?
-It helps me to be rich. – And what good is it for you to be rich? -It helps me buy more stars.
Greedy wealth takes us nowhere, we must know what is really necessary for us.
29. One is exposed to crying a little, if one has allowed oneself to be tamed…
When we let ourselves be carried away by the interests of another we will inevitably leave our own aside.
30. If you come, for example, at four in the afternoon; From three o’clock I would begin to be happy.
The company of a loved one is always a great joy, we are lucky with their mere presence.
31. But if you tame me, then we will need each other. For me, you will be unique in the world. For you, I will be unique in the world…
When we become attached to a person we also create a certain dependence on them.
32. You are forever responsible for what you have domesticated.
The bond with someone very close never disappears, we will always feel linked to that person.
33. If someone loves a flower of which there is only one specimen in millions and millions of stars, just look at it to be happy.
When we are with that person who is so important to us, just by his presence he makes us happy.
34. Nothing in the universe remains the same if somewhere, no one knows where, a lamb that we do not know has, or has not, eaten a rose.
Events continue to happen over which we have no control, but which practically cause everything to change around us.
35. It’s crazy to hate all roses just because one pricked you. Give up on all your dreams just because one of them didn’t come true.
We should not judge all people because one hurt us, we should continue trying to meet that person who complements us.
36. I lived a lot with older people and got to know them very closely; but this has not improved my opinion of them much.
Human beings are capable of the best things and the worst, human beings can be very evil.
37. Only children press their nose against the glass.
The innocence of a child is their best weapon to discover the world around them.
38. I have always loved the desert. You can sit on a sand dune. You don’t see anything. You don’t hear anything. And yet, something shines in the silence…
Sometimes we need to surround ourselves with solitude to be able to hear our thoughts.
39. But the seeds are invisible. They sleep in the secret of the earth until one of them occurs to wake up.
Sometimes things happen unexpectedly that we cannot anticipate, we must know how to adapt to that new situation.
40. Men no longer have time to know anything; They buy things already made from merchants; but since there is no merchant of friends, men no longer have friends.
Today’s society increasingly leads us to live solitary lives where consumerism is what rewards.
41. Men take up very little space on Earth… Older people will surely not believe them, because they always imagine that they take up a lot of space.
Many times we tend to believe that we are something beyond what we really are, we are still simple people of flesh and blood.
42. The beautiful thing about the desert is that everywhere it hides a well.
Even in the most remote place there are always valuable resources, just as there is always a little goodness in everyone.
43. Here is my secret, which could not be simpler: only with the heart can you see well; The essential is invisible to the eyes.
The most important things in life are intangible, they are not material goods.
44. It is much harder to judge yourself than it is to judge others. If you manage to judge yourself well, you are a true wise man.
Knowing how to recognize our mistakes is something that can be very complicated, because the first thing is to recognize that we are not perfect.
45. He fell in love with his flowers and not his roots, and in the fall he didn’t know what to do.
Beauty is ephemeral and one day it will end, we must know people beyond their physical appearance.
46. When one is very sad, sunsets are pleasant.
Finding a place to think is something we need to do on certain occasions.
47. When the mystery is too impressive, it is impossible to disobey.
Sometimes we need a little excitement in life and we look to do different things or be in different places.
48. Sometimes you will open your window just for pleasure and your friends will be amazed to see you laughing looking at the sky.
The most important thing in life is to be happy, without caring what others think.
49. Men? The wind carries them, because they do not have roots and not having them causes them bitterness.
Personal values are what will give us the necessary tools to live a full life.
50. The men of your planet – said the little prince – grow five thousand roses in the same garden… however they do not find what they are looking for.
To find what we want, we must first know what exactly we want.
51. No one is ever happy where they are.
Many times we are not satisfied with what we have, but the secret lies in knowing how to value what we enjoy.
52. You just have to ask each person what each one can give.
We must be aware of each person’s limitations and ask them for what they can contribute.
53. I thought I was rich with a unique flower and it turns out that I only have an ordinary rose.
Sometimes we tend to give value to things that really lack it, we must be aware of what we really have and what real value it has.
54. No one believed him because of his way of dressing. Older people are like that.
We must not fall into false appearances, the habit does not make the monk.
55. Baobabs start out very small.
We all start out as something very small, but with time and effort we will become what we really are.
56. Having a friend is a true privilege and if you forget about them you run the risk of becoming like older people who are only interested in figures and numbers.
Friendly relationships are very valuable and we must value them, friendship is something very difficult to find.
57. On the little prince’s planet there were, as on all planets, good herbs and bad herbs and, therefore, seeds of both.
In all places there are good people and bad people, knowing how to surround ourselves with the right ones depends on us.
58. Baobabs must be uprooted as soon as they are distinguished from rose bushes because they look very similar when they are small.
This quote tells us about how society gets rid of those things or people that are not useful to it when they are most defenseless, something very negative.
59. If a lamb eats bushes, it will also eat the flowers, right?
Everything in life has its positive aspects and its negative aspects, duality is always present.
60. The flowers are weak. They are naive. They defend themselves as best they can and the thorns are their defense.
In this quote we can also see another example of duality, even the most beautiful rose has its thorns.
61. I should have judged her by her actions and not by her words.
Knowing how to value someone for their actions is something that we must all do, words go with the wind.
62. Whether the volcanoes are extinct or awaken is the same for us. The interesting thing is the volcano mountain and it never changes.
There are things in the world that never change, no matter how much time passes and events happen.
63. Men get on trains but they don’t know where they are going. They don’t know what they want and they don’t know what to look for.
Many times in life we make decisions that we don’t know where they will take us.
64. It’s the same with the flower. If you love a flower that lives in a star, it is very sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars have flourished.
Keeping in our memory those people who were relevant in our lives is something that we all usually do.
65. Good! I admire you, but what good is it for you?
When we admire someone we must know why we do it, what are the attributes that make them stand out.
66. It is useful, then, for my volcanoes and for my flower that I possess them. But you, you are of no use to the stars…
In a relationship we must know how to empathize with the other person and know how to be better together than separately.
67. He is the only one who doesn’t seem ridiculous to me, perhaps because he is concerned with something else and not himself.
People who dedicate themselves to caring for other people are the ones who have the most emotional value; they dedicate their lives to caring for others out of pure vocation.
68. What a strange planet! It is dry, sharp and salty. And men lack imagination; They do nothing but repeat what they are told.
Imagination is something that makes people great. What would happen to humanity if it did not have imagination?
69. Of course, since we know how to understand life, we calmly make fun of numbers. I would have liked to start this story in the manner of fairy tales.
What do we really know about life? Do we really live it to its fullest extent? our own perception of it leads us to create our own reality.
70. The soil of the little prince’s planet was infested with baobab seeds that, if not plucked, have just emerged and as soon as they are recognized, they can cover the entire planet, pierce it with their roots and, if the planet is very small and the baobabs There are many, they make it explode.
In this quote we can see a metaphor that we must solve problems when they are still small.
71. If you ever travel, this could be very useful to you. Sometimes there is no problem in leaving work until a little later; but in the case of baobabs, delay is always fatal.
By acting as soon as possible we can tackle problems in a much more effective way.
72. And since friends are not sold in stores, men no longer have friends. If you want to have a friend, then you must tame me!
In order to make friends, sometimes we must make certain concessions, knowing how to adapt to the other person.
73. People have stars but they don’t mean the same to everyone.
Personal dreams can be as different from each other as there are people in the world.
74. For some, those who travel, the stars are their guides.
The stars have always been used as a reference in long-distance travel.
75. For the wise, the stars are a reason for study and for my businessman, they were gold.
The same object or thing can be seen in many different ways, depending on the person observing it.
76. And therein lies the great mystery. For you who love the little prince, the same as for me, nothing in the universe will have changed if somewhere, who knows where, an unknown lamb has eaten or has not eaten a rose…
Everything is relative in our lives, and something that may not be important to us today may be important tomorrow.
77. My drawing did not represent a hat. It represented a boa snake digesting an elephant. I then drew the inside of the boa snake so that older people could understand. These people always need explanations.
The perspective from which we observe something is what gives meaning to that something.
78. When one finishes getting ready in the morning, one must carefully clean the planet.
We must take care of ourselves and our surroundings, a quote that has a lot of meaning in the times we live in.
79. I know a planet where a very red man lives, who has never smelled a flower, nor looked at a star and who has never loved anyone.
We must enjoy life and adopt a positive attitude towards it, how we lived it depends only on us.
80. Older people really like figures.
Greed to amass fortune has brought humanity to a point of no return, we must abandon this consumerist lifestyle.