以下是《小王子》英文版的幾個佳句:
1. The stars are beautiful because of a lot of tiny things like you.
星星真美,因為有一大群小小的東西。
2. What makes you old is what you think about.
什麼使你變老,是你心裡所想。
3. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
只有用心去看,才能看清事物的本質;眼睛是看不見的。
4. You take things too seriously.
你太嚴肅了。
5. A moment earlier and a moment later, there is no difference, it would have still been there. A butterfly can have flown in front of your eyes, you did not bother to see. You thought too much. A fox could have trespassed by the edge of your bed, it could have given you a fleeting joy and left, and then suddenly it could have come back, but it didn't and that is precisely its happiness, the most fragile in the world! It would be as if I had said to you: "When I go out for a walk, I meet nice scenery every now and then.
要是你早點出發一小會兒一小會兒,蝴蝶不就飛到你的眼前了嗎?你沒工夫瞧它。你想得太多啦!你要是睡在床上的邊兒上,狐狸就可能回來,它給你帶來的幸福就是世上最脆弱的東西!就好像我對你說過:“我散步時總能碰到好多好多好事兒。”
6. To love a flower, you must be silent while it grows.
愛上一朵花就陪它綻放,花兒靜默成長。
7. You know—one loves the sunset, when one is so sad one evening, even though one knows it will be there tomorrow.
你知道嗎?當一個人情緒低落的時候,他會格外喜歡看日落……即使明天就是日落。
8. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: one has to be very much alive to see properly. The day I was born I also began to understand things. The sun was shining on me, and I had just begun to understand everything! But each time it gets dark, I feel a little sad because I have to wait until tomorrow for the sun to shine again. And so, when you are sad, just look at some stars and you will feel better! They are beautiful, because light travels that way. They are so far away that one would need a whole day to reach them from here! And that is what makes them beautiful!
這是我的秘密,一個很簡單的秘密:只有心懷希望的人才看得清楚。當我還只是個小孩子的時候,我就已經懂得所有的一切了。每當夜幕降臨的時候,我就會感到很傷心,因為我不得不等到明天才能再看到太陽……所以,當你感到悲傷的時候,你就看看天空中的星星吧,你就會變得好過一些!星星是美麗的,因為光就是從那裡發出來的。它們離我們太遠了,一顆星星的光要到達我們這裡要花費整整一天的時間!也正是這一點使得它們如此美麗!