Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quote

Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.


Translated by Katherine Woods, The Little Prince, Chapter VII (p. 26), Harcourt, Brace & Company. 1943


Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.

Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.