Цитаты из книги автора Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Маленький принц / The Little Prince

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to explain things to them all the time.

but I have a horror of drafts

Let the tigers come with their claws!”
“There are no tigers on my planet,” the little prince objected. “And, anyway, tigers do not eat weeds.”
“I am not a weed,” the flower replied, sweetly.
“Please excuse me.”

So, too, she began very quickly to torment him with her vanity.

And the little prince, completely abashed, brought a sprinkling-can[17] of fresh water. So, he wa

And I was born at the same moment as the sun.”

Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself. She yawned and said:
“Ah! I am scarcely awake. I think that you will excuse me. My petals are still all disarranged.”

She wished to appear in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh, yes! She was a coquettish creature!

She chose her colours with the greatest care

The shrub soon stopped to grow, and began to produce a flower