Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me." Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters.

I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time.

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth, Author

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather

How can I hold you close enough?

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

I'll risk everything together with you.

When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

With me you could have been another person.

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

TRIGORIN Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it.

Shabelsky: Doctors are the same as lawyers, the sole difference being that lawyers only rob you, but doctors rob you and kill you too...

There is no greater sorrow than to know another's secret when you cannot help them.

Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

We all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

They say, tell me what you've read and I'll tell you who you are.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.