Quotations by Author

Henrik Ibsen

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.

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

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

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

An atmosphere of lies like that infects and poisons the whole life of a home. In a house like that, every breath that the children take is filled with the germs of evil.