Henrik Ibsen Quotes - Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town.

Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately--the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time.

A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer.

The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?

Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.

Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters.

Good god, people don't do such things!

Ja, De tvang meg inn under det som De kalte plikt og skyldighet; da De lovpriste som rett og riktig hva hele mitt sinn opprørte seg imot noe vederstyggelig. Da var det jeg begynte å se Deres lærdomme efter i sømmene. Jeg ville bare pille ved en eneste knute; men da jeg hadde fått den løst, så raknet det opp alt sammen. Og så skjønte jeg at det var maskinsøm.

Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend. Peter Stockmann: Almost—yes!

No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.

A man who has the inventive genius can't control it exactly as he wishes. Its working depends in great measure on inspiration--on a momentary suggestion--and it is almost impossible to tell beforehand at what moment it will come.

OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun.

Nikada ne treba oblačiti svoje najbolje odelo kad čovek ide da se bori za slobodu i istinu.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

...brug ikke det udenlandske ord: Idealer, vi har jo det gode norske Løgne.

The forests avenge themselves.

He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity.

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?