Frailty Quotes

• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Forgiveness, Failure, Errors

  Voltaire, André Maurois (1939). “The Living Thoughts of Voltaire”

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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

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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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• A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

  Anne Stevenson

  Thinking, Poetry, Feelings

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• Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be.

  William Shakespeare

  Blame, Made, Alas

  "The Plays (poems) of Shakespeare". Ed. by H. Staunton, the illustr. by J. Gilbert engr. by the brothers Dalziel,

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• False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greatness, Political, Politics

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Artist, Humanity, Vitality

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Cheat

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.181

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• Frailty, thy name is woman!

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Memorable, Sassy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Frail, Thyself

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• I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.

  Hugh Mackay

  Unique, Imperfection, Secret

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• Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Difficult, Grows, Humans

  "Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln's closed-door impeachment statement". www.cnn.com. February 12, 1999.

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• Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Faults, Human Nature

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• Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Temptation, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

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

  Samuel Butler

  Records, World, Weakness

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

  Voltaire

  Tolerance, Humanity, Pardon Me

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire

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

  Jef Raskin

  Needs, Considerate, Interfaces

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Heart, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Fall, Vanity

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• What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Kissing, Men, Vow

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.88

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• Great for good, or great for evil.

  Robert Burns

  Evil

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• The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,
  Though to itself it only live and die'
  But if that flow'r with base infection meet,
  The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
  For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
  Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Weed, Sweet

  Sonnet 94

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• When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

  Samuel Rogers

  Foundation, Treasure, Care

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• A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Imagination, Novelists

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