# The most beautiful quotes from The Little Prince

"One sees clearly only with the heart", "Draw me a sheep", the tamed fox and the rose: the lines from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince everyone knows, with their chapter.

- 30 votes · 12 items
- Aug 29, 2023 · Julie
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## Top 12

1. **One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 21.
2. **Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 1.
3. **It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 21.
4. **Please... draw me a sheep.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 2.
5. **Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 4.
6. **He was only a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 21.
7. **I must put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 9.
8. **Baobabs, before they grow big, start out by being little.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 5.
9. **You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 21.
10. **All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Little Prince (1943), dedication to Léon Werth.
11. **When you have finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 5.
12. **You, only you, will have stars that can laugh!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Little Prince (1943), chapter 26.

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