A forest bird never wants a cage.

— Henrik Ibsen

A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.

— Henrik Ibsen

A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.

— Henrik Ibsen

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

— Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

— Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

— Henrik Ibsen

Cage an eagle, and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.

— Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

— Henrik Ibsen

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora-bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundred of thousands of women have done.

— Henrik Ibsen

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

— Henrik Ibsen