Famous Quotes / Henrik Ibsen
35 Quotations by Henrik Ibsen
- 1. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
- 2. A forest bird never wants a cage.
- 3. A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.
- 4. A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they ...
- 5. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
- 6. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
- 7. And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
- 8. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.
- 9. Castles in the air: they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
- 10. Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
- 11. I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What bu ...
- 12. In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and ha ...
- 13. In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a tho ...
- 14. It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists ...
- 15. It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single ...
- 16. Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medi ...
- 17. Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medi ...
- 18. Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- 19. Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
- 20. Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.