Quotes from the little prince that are applicable in an essay question as evidence

"But if you tame me, we shall need each other. To me, you shall be unique in the world. To you, I shall be unique in the world"

"But if you tame me, my days will be as if filled with sunlight" "words are the source of misunderstanding"

"In effect, there were on the little prince's planet, as on every planet, good plants and bad plants."

"But seeds, as everyone knows, are invisible. They sleep in the secrecy of the earth, until one of them suddenly decides to wake up"

"Here is the best likeness that, later on, I was able to make of him. The drawing is certainly far less delightful than the original."

"Children have to be very indulgent towards grown-ups"

"You see, they have no roots, which makes life difficult for them"

"Grown-ups are very strange" "Conceited men only ever hear praise"

"Grown ups always need explanations" "I would place myself on their level"

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children always and forever to be giving explanations"

"Only the children know what they are looking for"

"I shall seem to be dead and it will not be true"

"So I kept my own company, without anyone to really talk to"

"I would place myself on their level"

"My friend smiled at me indulgently"

"Of course, for we who understand life, figures are quite unimportant"

"Grown-ups, of course, will not believe you when you tell them this. They think they take up a lot a space"

"One must require of each what each is able to give" "It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others"

"Grown-ups love figures. When you describe a new friend to them, they don't ask about the important things...Instead they demand: How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much does his father earn? Only then do they feel they know him."

"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has a friend . And if I do forget him, I might become like those grown-ups who no longer care for anything except figures"

"So it was, gradually, that I came to understand your melancholy little life"

"When I drew the baobabs, I was driven on by a sense of urgency"

"You see, I do not want my story to be taken lightly. I have suffered so much grief setting down these memories.Already six years have passed since my friend went away, along with his sheep"

"You see my friend never gave explanations. Perhaps I am a bit of a grown-up after all. I must be getting old."

"One is never happy where one is"

"you can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."

"You are talking like a grown-up" "You are confusing everything... you are mixing up everything!" When the Little Prince gets so worked up and upset he starts sobbing, narrator thinks; "I did not know how to reach him, where to catch up with him. It is such a secret place, the land of tears"

Little Prince to narrator: "You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset" Narrator, replies to Little Prince; " 'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunsets?' " Text: "But the prince made no answer."

the Little Prince: "You must never listen to flowers. You must simply gaze at them and breathe them in. My flower perfumed my whole planet, but I was unable to appreciate her". "I should have judged by her deeds and not her words." "And I was too young to know how to love her!"

The flower: "I ask your forgiveness. Try to be happy." "Don't hang about like that, it's irritating. You've decided to go. Now go!" "For she did not want him to see her tears. She was such a haughty flower..."

"For kings, the world is very simple: all men are subjects" "For what this king fundamentally insisted upon was that his authority be respected." "He was an absolute monarch"

Visit to the planet of the Drunk: "The visit was very short, but it plunged the Little Prince into a deep melancholy" Visit to the planet of the Businessman "I happen to be a very serious person, a precise person" "I happen to be a very serious person, I've no time for idle chatter!" "Though I, for my part, happen to be a very serious person! I've no time for daydreaming"