Quotes from work
The Wild Duck

Henrik IbsenOriginal title Vildandenputo (Norwegian Nynorsk, 1884)

The Wild Duck is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is considered the first modern masterpiece in the genre of tragicomedy. The Wild Duck and Rosmersholm are "often to be observed in the critics' estimates vying with each other as rivals for the top place among Ibsen's works."

“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)