Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

He who would travel happy must travel lite.

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

Where I live, everything is very small.

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

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.)

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

One must observe the proper rites.

I am a fox", the fox said.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.