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" Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 265
1910
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Ibsen's Prose Dramas, Volume 2

Henrik Ibsen - 1890 - 400 pages
...Just you see ! GREGERS. If you're right and I'm wrong, then life is not worth living. RELLING. Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only...pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. GREGERS (looking straight before him). In that case, I'm glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING....
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Books and Plays

Allan Monkhouse - Literary Criticism - 1894 - 252 pages
...little further:— GREGERS : If you're right and I'm wrong, then life is not worth living. RELLING : Oh, life would be quite tolerable after all, if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that keep pestering us in our poverty with the claims of the ideal. GREGERS : In that case, I'm glad that my...
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Ghosts: An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen - 1904 - 410 pages
...Just you see ! GREGERS. If you're right and I'm wrong, then life is not worth living. RELLING. Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only...pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. GREGERS (looking straight before him). In that case, I'm glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING....
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The Wild Duck: A Play in Five Acts

Henrik Ibsen - 1905 - 302 pages
...you wait ! r GREGERS. If you are right and I am wrong, then life is not! worth living. RELLING. Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only...pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. GREGERS. [Looking straight before him.] In that case, I am glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING....
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The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen: An enemy of the people, tr. by Mrs. E ...

Henrik Ibsen - 1907 - 438 pages
...wait ! GREGERS. If you are right and I am wrong, then life is not worth living. .. . . BELLING. i Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if (only we could be rid of the confounded duns that I keep on pestering us, in our poverty, with the Vclaim of the ideal. GREGERS. [Looking straight before...
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An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen - 1907 - 432 pages
...Just you wait ! GREGERS. If you are right and I am wrong, then life is not worth living. RILLING. Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only...pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. .. GREGERS. [Looking straight before him.] In that case, I am glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING....
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The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen, Volume 8

Henrik Ibsen - 1907 - 436 pages
...Just you wait ! GREGERS. If you are right and I am wrong, then life is not worth living. RELLING. Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only...pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. GREGERS. [Looking straight before him.] In that case, I am glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING....
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The Court Theatre 1904-1907: A Commentary and Criticism

Desmond MacCarthy - Court Theatre (London, England) - 1907 - 204 pages
...speaking when he pronounces his famous dictum, " Life would be quite tolerable if only we could get rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us in our poverty with the claims of the ideal." Many think The Wild Duck the best of Ibsen's prose dramas. There is certainly...
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The Works of Henrik Ibsen, Volume 8

Henrik Ibsen - 1911 - 502 pages
...Just you wait! GREGERS. If you are right and I am wrong, then life is not worth living. RELLING. Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only...pestering us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal. GREGERS. [Looking straight before him.] In that case, I am glad that my destiny is what it is. RELLING....
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Interpreters of Life and the Modern Spirit

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 382 pages
...tolerable, after all," says Relling, — the real Ibsen speaking, undoubtedly in propria persona — , "if only we could be rid of the confounded duns that...us, in our poverty, with the claim of the ideal." Nowhere has Ibsen's power of minute and veracious characterization showed itself so supreme. Gregers...
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