Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.