Henrik Ibsen Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Really to sin you have to be serious about it.”

“Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.”

“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”

“Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.”

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

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

“Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.”

“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!”