Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies. - Henrik Ibsen (The Wild Duck Quotes)

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.[Brug ikke det udenlandske ord: idealer. Vi har jo det gode norske ord: løgne.]

Source:The Wild Duck (1884); The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen (ed. William Heinemann, 1907), Volume VIII, Page 371
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