Ibsen A Doll House Quotes & Sayings

A Doll's House is about money, about the way it turns locks. — Elizabeth Hardwick

We betray all that is beautiful in us by trying to explain it. — Marty Rubin

Life's not a one-shot special. It's a friggin' on-going series. Live it! — Arnold Arre

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates. — Oliver Gaspirtz

DAYS ARE WEEKS AND WEEKS ARE DAYS INSIDE YOU — Blake Butler

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending. — Lindsey Graham

NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald. — Henrik Ibsen

Love is not an imagination but a radiating light from the heart. — Debasish Mridha

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of her children on the same moral and emotional level as the leaving of her husband and we cannot, in our hearts, asssent to that. It is not only the leaving but the way the play does not have time for suffering, changes of heart. Ibsen has been too much a man in the end. He has taken the man's practice, if not his stated belief, that where self-realization is concerned children shall not be an impediment. — Elizabeth Hardwick

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house. — Henrik Ibsen

I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.' — Autumn Reeser

Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals.. — Jeremy Rifkin

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. — Rory Bremner

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right. — Samantha

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses! — Frank Scoblete

I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did. — Ira Glass

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose. — Ani DiFranco