Frail Quotes

• We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Flesh

  William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.407, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Pool, Humans

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Years, Flying

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

  Helen Suzman

  Receiving, Littles, Nasty

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• The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Broken Heart, Stars, Wish

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• To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Censorship In Books, Censoring Books, Purging

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Frailty, Thyself

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• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

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• The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

  Corazon Aquino

  Light, Media, People

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• The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Paris, Sick

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• People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sleep, People, Roles

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• The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

  Max Lerner

  Book, Men, Rejection

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Sister In Law, My Sister, Used

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• Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Gertrude, Married

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• An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

  Kim Campbell

  Children, Numbers, Needs

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Strong, School, Directors

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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

  Seneca the Younger

  God, Greatness, Men

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• I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

  TobyMac

  Honesty, People, Faces

  "Mac World" by Deborah Evans Prince, Billboard, January 09, 2010.

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• Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Men, Virtue

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1543, Moody Publishers

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• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Selected Essays”

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• Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

  John Updike

  Procrastination, Comfort, Vagueness

  John Updike (2009). “In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel”, p.39, Random House

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