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The Little Prince Quotes

11 of the best book quotes from The Little Prince
01
“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
02
“Only the children know what they are looking for.”
03
“People where you live,” the little prince said, “grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don’t find what they’re looking for... And yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose.”
04
“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.”
05
“What makes the desert beautiful,′ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well...”
06
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
07
“Grown ups are certainly very strange.”
08
“Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while.”
09
“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
10
Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, “Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?” And you’ll see how everything changes. . . . And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
11
Little Spook and the little Prince were playing together when they heard a terrible noise. They went to find Little Spook’s parents who revealed that the noise came from Little Spook’s brand-new baby sister. And that sister can make some noises!
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