Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsenwas a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 March 1828
CitySkien, Norway
CountryNorway
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth
You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
It was love for me - her kind of love - that drove her into the mill-race.
Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.
Emperor? You old fake! / You're no Emperor. You're just an onion. / Now then, little Peer, I'm going to peel you.
Some day, youth will come here and thunder on my door, and force its way in to me.
A woman cannot be herself in modern society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess female conduct from a male standpoint.
Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.