Quotes from work

The Wild Duck

“Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir — and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed — and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again.”

Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck

Ekdal, Act II
The Wild Duck (1884)

“Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies."”

Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck

Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)

“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”

Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck

Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)

“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”

Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck

Hjalmar, Act IV
The Wild Duck (1884)