Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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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.
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
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A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
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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... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
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And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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I am a fox", the fox said.
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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
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A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!