Henrik Ibsen Quotes about Lying

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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Atheism, Use

"The Wild Duck".

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Doe, Consideration

Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

Freedom, Lying, Intelligent

Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Age, Majority

HENRIK IBSEN; SIDNEY KINGSLEY; SIDNEY HOWARD (1961). “AND ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; MEN IN WHITE; YELLOW JACK”

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Men, Average

'Vildanden' (The Wild Duck, 1884) act 5

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Henrik Ibsen

Children, Lying, Home

Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.19, Henrik Ibsen

It is no use lying to one's self.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Self, Use

Henrik Ibsen (2015). “A Doll's House: Illustrated”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Writing, Humbug

Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Elderly, Gentleman

Henrik Ibsen (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Truth, Lying, Majority

Henrik Ibsen (2012). “An Enemy of the People”, p.59, Courier Corporation

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Henrik Ibsen

Lying, Support, Gentleman

Henrik Ibsen (2009). “An Enemy of the People: A Play in Five Acts”, p.150, The Floating Press