Henrik Ibsen Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Men, Answers

  Henrik Ibsen (1947). “Eleven plays of Henrik Ibsen”, Modern Library

• Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Nature, People, Bird

• HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Children, Husband, Mean

• An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mean, Sake, Duty

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

• I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Sacred, Duty

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer, Act III, 1879.

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