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.