20 Most beautiful quotes from book ‘The Little Prince’

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The Little Prince or Le Petit Prince is a Novella by French aristocrat, writer, and military aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . It was first published in English and French in 1943. Since then it has become the most translated book after bible and it also have multiple movies and play adaptations. It has soled more than 140 million copies till date which makes it one of the best selling and most translated book ever published.

The 20 most beautiful quotes from “The Little Prince”

1. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves and it is rather tedious for children to have to explain things to them time and again.
2. It is sad to forget a friend, not everyone has a friend.
3. You know when someone is so terribly sad, one love sunset.
4. For Kings the world is greatly simplified. to them, all men are subjects.
5. One must demand of each and everyone what he or she is capable of.
6. Authority is first and foremost based on reason. If you order your people to throw themselves into the sea, you will have a revolution on your hands.
7. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise.
8. One can be both faithful and lazy.
9. When one wants to be funny, one have to lie a little bit from time to time.
10. It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
11. Only children know what they are looking for.
12. The stars are beautiful because of a flower one cannot see.
13. Be it the house, the stars or the desert, the source of their beauty cannot be seen!
14. The stars mean different things to different people. For some they are nothing more than twinkling lights in the sky. For travellers they are guides. For scholars they are food for thought. For my business man they are wealth.
15. Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies
16. It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose
17. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
18. All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.
19. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
20. What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them…Happiness doesn’t lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.