black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Henrik Ibsen

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSEN

Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
HENRIK IBSEN

Close Live Myself Relate Writing
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSEN

Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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

Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
HENRIK IBSEN

Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
HENRIK IBSEN

Serious Sin Yourself
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSEN

Marriage Mindset Yourself
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSEN

Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
HENRIK IBSEN

Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
HENRIK IBSEN

Desire Impossible Willing

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henrik Ibsen Quotes