Classic Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

1828-1906

Norwegian dramatist and poet

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

A forest bird never wants a cage.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception
underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Castles in the air – -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.

Do not use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.”

Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.”

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all
these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

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In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.