The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.”
“Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.”
“The forests avenge themselves.”
“He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior — don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.”
“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.”
“No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.”
“Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?”
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Book Keywords:
integrity, truth, idealism, grief, detest, lie, mourning, death
