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Quotes from The Wild Duck — Henrik Ibsen

1828–1906 Norway

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

The Wild Duck (1884)

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

The Wild Duck (1884)

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.

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.

The Wild Duck (1884)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henrik Ibsen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.