Miss Julie and Other Plays Quotes

“When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“As one takes leave of a friend, a place, How the loss of all one has loved rises up, And regret for what one has destroyed… Ah, now I know all the agony of living, So this is what it means to be mortal— — — One misses even what one has not valued, One regrets even misdeeds never done… One yearns to go, and yet one longs to stay… So the heart’s two halves are rent asunder, As if wild horses were pulling it apart, torn to pieces By contradiction, indecision, disharmony… —”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“theology, the doctrine of God, which is always attacked and ridiculed by philosophy, which claims to be wisdom itself. And medicine, which always questions the validity of philosophy, and doesn’t consider theology a science but a superstition…”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy and pity for all mortal beings runs through this uncertain tale.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“—He really is the most arrogant person I’ve ever come across. ‘I am, therefore God exists’. ALICE”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“KURT. Then he does love you! ALICE. Probably. But that doesn’t stop him from hating me. KURT”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“CAPTAIN. Yes, I’m crying, even though I am a man. But has not a man eyes? Has not a man hands, organs, senses, affections, passions? Does he not live by the same food, is he not hurt with the same weapons, is he not warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a woman is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? Why should a man not complain, a soldier weep?* Because it’s unmanly! Why is it unmanly? LAURA”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“I saved your father from destitution, and he rewarded me with all the terrible hatred that a debt of gratitude breeds… he taught his family to speak ill of me. STUDENT”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“but I so often forget what I know! QUARANTINE”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just!— — —Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“That really is the worst revenge you can take, for there’s nothing he loathes more than magnanimity. KURT”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“CAPTAIN. America? That’s a pretty dreadful place, isn’t it? Nothing but rednecks! KURT [gloomily]. Well, it’s not Copenhagen. ALICE”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“PASTOR. Violence aside now, admit that he suffers from fixed ideas. DOCTOR. I think your ideas are even more fixed, pastor! PASTOR”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“a man must take his children on trust—isn’t that what Goethe says?* CAPTAIN”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays

“LAURA. Yes! It’s strange, but I’ve never been able to look at a man without feeling I’m his superior. CAPTAIN”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays