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 NellDraw we here a parallel.She, like thee, was forced to bearAll 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. External links frailty Category:Themes