Frailty Quotes

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

— Thomas Shadwell

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

— John Dryden

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

— Alexander Pope

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

— Voltaire

Frailty, thy name is woman!

— William Shakespeare

“The frailty of everything, revealed at last.”

— Anonymous

All flesh doth frailty breed!

— Edmund Spenser

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

— Robert Lowth

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

— Pope Francis

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

— Ben Jonson

“Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

— Samuel Butler

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

— Jef Raskin

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

— Thomas a Kempis

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

— Stanley Kunitz

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

— Anonymous

“Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to…

— Kristen Callihan

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we…

— Blanche Lincoln

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

— John Steinbeck

The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and…

— Yuri Kochiyama

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one…

— Henry Clay

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition…

— Alan Rickman

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

— William Shakespeare

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness…

— Elizabeth Aston

Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind…

— Bonnie Raitt

Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the…

— Eve Ensler

We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of…

— Desmond Tutu

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --…

— Albert Einstein

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in…

— Heather King

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not…

— David Cannadine

“Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom…

— Pope Pius XII

The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate…

— David Hume

I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of…

— Lloyd Alexander

That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer…

— Boyd K. Packer

“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds…

— Eudora Welty

When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest…

— Alexander McCall Smith