Henryk Ibsen słynne cytaty
„Kiedy jest się na proszonym obiedzie, to trzeba zapracować na deser.”
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, wyd. „Zamek”, Warszawa 1995, s. 149.
Henryk Ibsen cytaty
„Najsilniejszym człowiekiem w świecie jest ten, kto jest zupełnie sam.”
(...) den sterkeste mann i verden, det er han som står mest alene.
Źródło: Wróg ludu, akt V, tłum. Cecylia Wojewoda
„Nikt nie umiera w samym środku piątego aktu.”
Źródło: Peer Gynt, tłum. Z. Krawczykowski
„Niewyśpiewane pieśni są zawsze najpiękniejsze.”
Źródło: Pretendenci do tronu, akt IV, 5
Tvert imot! (norw.)
odpowiedź pisarza na słowa jego pielęgniarki, która stwierdziła, że tego dnia wygląda lepiej niż zwykle; po chwili pisarz zmarł (1906).
Henryk Ibsen: Cytaty po angielsku
“An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.”
Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy
Guldstad
Love's Comedy (1862)
Makrina, in Emperor and Galilean (1873), Final lines.
Henrik Ibsen When We Dead Awaken
Ulfhejm, in Act I
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
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.”
Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Hilda, Act III
The Master Builder (1892)
Henrik Ibsen Dzika kaczka
Ekdal, Act II
The Wild Duck (1884)
“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)
Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy
Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)
“Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies."”
Henrik Ibsen Dzika kaczka
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
“When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.”
Henrik Ibsen When We Dead Awaken
Irene, in Act II
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
Henrik Ibsen Wróg ludu
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
Act II
Hedda Gabler (1890)
“You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.”
Dr. Rank, Act III
A Doll's House (1879)
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.”
Henrik Ibsen Dzika kaczka
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
Henrik Ibsen Dzika kaczka
Hjalmar, Act IV
The Wild Duck (1884)
Henrik Ibsen Emperor and Galilean
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.”
Henrik Ibsen Wróg ludu
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“Really to sin you have to be serious about it.”
Button-Moulder, Act V, Scene VII
Peer Gynt (1867)
“The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.”
Nora Helmer, Act III
A Doll's House (1879)
“I've the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell!”
Nora Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
