Henrik Ibsen citations célèbres
Explicit de la pièce.
Empereur et Galiléen (Kejser og Galilæer), 1873
“Peer Gynt : […] C’est en partant au hasard qu’on arrive aux résultats les plus originaux. […]”
Peer Gynt (Peer Gynt), 1867
Henrik Ibsen: Citations en anglais
“An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.”
Guldstad
Love's Comedy (1862)
Makrina, in Emperor and Galilean (1873), Final lines.
Dr. Rank, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.”
Torvald Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“To think it, wish it, even want it —
but do it! No, that I cannot understand.”
Peer Gynt, after he sees a boy cut off his finger to avoid serving in the army, Act III, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
“Castles in the air — they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.”
Hilda, Act III
The Master Builder (1892)
“Whether I pound or am being pounded,
all the same there will be moaning!”
Peer Gynt, declaring that no matter what he does, it is not what people want, Act I, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
“Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies."”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
“When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.”
Irene, in Act II
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
Act II
Hedda Gabler (1890)
Act V
Brand (1866)
“What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.”
Dr. Rank, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
Emperor and Galilean (1873), as quoted by Lester B. Pearson in his address on accepting the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1957) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1957/pearson-acceptance.html
“There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.”
Torvald Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
As quoted in The Book of Poisonous Quotes (1993) edited by Colin Jarman, p. 232.
“I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
Letter to Georg Brandes (3 January 1882).
“The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made.”
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.”
Nora Helmer, Act III
A Doll's House (1879)
