Frailty

For the film, see Frailty (film).

Frailty is the characteristic of being frail, delicate, easily hurt or damaged.

Quotes

• Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell
  Draw we here a parallel.
  She, like thee, was forced to bear
  All reflections, foul or fair.
  Thou art deep and bright within,—
  Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;
  Thou art very frail as well,
  Frail as flesh is,—so was Nell.
  • Samuel Laman Blanchard, Nell Gwynne's Looking Glass (1843), Stanza 1.

• This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
  • John Dryden, Don Sebastian (1690), Act I, scene 1.

• Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
  • Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle To Temple, line 69.

• Frailty, thy name is woman!
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 146.

• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves,
  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
  Presuming on their changeful potency.
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act IV, scene 4, line 96.

• Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
  For, such as we are made of, such we be.
  • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 2, line 32.