Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was a Norwegian dramatist and poet, born at Skein, in Norway. He was bred to medicine, but became a famous author of a succession of plays of a new type, commencing with "Catalina," a poor attempt, followed by "Doll's House," "Ghosts," "Pillars of Society," and "Brand," deemed his masterpiece, besides others. His characters are vividly drawn as if from life. He is a psychologist, and his productions have all more or less a social bearing.

Wisdom & Quotes

• All or nothing.

- Brand

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

- A Doll's House

• Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.

Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost, I am an individual, just as much as you are.
- A Doll's House

• I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

- letter to George Brandes, January 3, 1882

• The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

- An Enemy of the People

• The minority is always right.

- An Enemy of the People

• Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

- Peer Gynt

Leo Tolstoy