The Wild Duck Quotes

“Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“The forests avenge themselves.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“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.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“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.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“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.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“...brug ikke det udenlandske ord: Idealer, vi har jo det gode norske Løgne.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Gina. I wish to goodness that detestable thing had never set his foot inside our doors!”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Først er det nu denne brysomme rettsskaffenhetsfeberen, og så det som verre er, -alltid går De og ørsker i tilbedelsesdelirium; alltid skal De ha noe å beundre utenfor Deres egne greier.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Nei, dessverre, han er ikke galere enn folk pleier å være. Men en sykdom har han riktignok i kroppen. Han lider av akutt rettskaffenhetsfeber.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Det ved jeg, at til ægteskabet hører barnet også, og barnet skal I lade i fred. Hedvig får I værs'go holde udenfor. Hende skal I fare varsomt med, siger jeg, for ellers kan I komme til at gøre en ulykke på hende.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“RELING: Ako dopuštate, - kakva je vaša sudbina?
GREGERS: Da budem za stolom trinaesti.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Ne upotrebljavajte stranu reč: ideali. Pa mi imamo dobru našu reč: laži.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself in a syrup of sentiment and self-admiration and self-pity. Just you wait!”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Demonisk er bare noe sludder jeg fant for å berge livet i ham. Hadde jeg ikke så gjort, hadde det stakkars svinet bukket under i selvforakt og fortvilelse for mange herrens år siden.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Folk er syke, omtrent alle ihop dessverre.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck

“Å, personlighet – han! Hvis han noensinne har hatt ansats til den slags abnormiteter som De kaller personlighet, så er både røttene og trevlene blitt grundig ekstirpert allerede i gutteårene; det kan jeg forsikre Dem.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck