english quotes hedda gabler

'I developed a kind of - power over him'

Yes, well, now we can enjoy a nice, cosy little chat - Mrs Hedda

'I've been in my room since lunch, dressing' 'You haven't a tiny crack in the door through which we might have negotiated?

'And once you said you'd burn it all off' (hair)

'but you'll have to go through a competition'

 'You agreed that we should enter society. And keep open house. That was the bargain'

 ‘I'm burning it! I'm burning your child!'

'Had he vine leaves in his hair'

 'Beautifully? With a crown of vine leaves in my hair? The way you used to dream of me - in the old days?'

'Hedda Gabler' 'Yes, that used to be my name. When we first knew eachother'

'Hedda Gabler married. And to George Tesman!'

‘Mrs Hedda’

'Yes, that'll suit you, won't it, Judge? The only cock on the dunghill - ' 'A shot is heard in the rear room'

‘Here use it now!’

'Well, well, Mrs Hedda - perhaps you're right. If I had, who knows what I might not think up?

 'Power? You think I had some power over you'

'I saw him wink at Tesman when you showed you didn't dare to join their wretched little party'

'So that was how much you trusted me' 'Skoal, Thea'

'I've no leanings in that direction, Judge. I don't want any - responsibilities

'You haven't good reason to know anything'

'If you could bring yourself to call her Auntie JuJu. For my sake, Hedda?'

'it'll be a kind of duel, by Jove'

'Eilert doesn't want to stand in our way'

'above this sofa hangs the portrait of a handsome old man in general's uniform'

'a shot is heard in the rear room'

'Hedda is lying dead on the sofa'

'all round the drawing-room bunches of flowers stand in vases and glasses, more bunches lie on the tables'

‘except that the piano has been removed and an elegant little writing-table, with a bookcase, stands in its place'