小王子经典语录英文(47条)

Here are 47 carefully curated and polished经典语录 from The Little Prince, preserving Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's poetic essence while enhancing readability. Each quote captures the philosophical depth and childlike wisdom that have made the novella a timeless classic:

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."

"Words are the source of misunderstandings."

"If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars."

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"You know one loves the sunset, when one is sad."

"Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her."

"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."

"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."

"I thought that I was rich, with a flower that was unique in all the world; and all I had was a common rose."

"The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen."

"I am looking for friends. What does that mean—'tame'?"

"Tame means 'to establish ties'."

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you—the rose that belongs to me."

"But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen."

"It is the same with people. If you find a stray sheep, you become responsible for it."

"The desert is beautiful," the little prince added. "And what makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well..."

"What gives the desert its beauty is that somewhere it contains a well."

"You must keep your promise," said the fox. "Words are the source of misunderstandings."

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

"You have five hundred million stars, but you sleep..."

"I have been inhabited by a fox."

"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed."

"The men where you live, raise five thousand roses in the same garden—and they do not find in it what they are looking for."

"And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."

"The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."

"I am responsible for my rose," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

"All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people."

"For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky."

"For my businessman they were gold. But all these stars are silent. You—you alone—will have the stars as no one else has them."

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night..."

"You will have stars that can laugh!"

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me."

"You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure..."

"Your star will just be one of the stars, for others. But for you, it will be as if all the stars were laughing."

"You understand... it is too far. I cannot carry this body with me. It is too heavy."

"It is just as if he had fallen asleep. The little prince's laugh will always be with me."

"The most beautiful things in the world are invisible and intangible. They can only be felt with the heart."

"I have drunk the water. It tastes of stars."

"The night was falling, and I was too tired to walk any further."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

These quotes distill the novella’s profound meditations on love, responsibility, and the invisible bonds that give life meaning. How might the little prince’s wisdom about "taming" and seeing with the heart change how we value our own relationships and daily experiences?