Frail Quotes

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

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

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Beauty is a frail good.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

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

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

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

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

How frail you are. I don’t want to hurt you by accident. (Nykyrian) I’m not as frail as I appear. I know from lots of experience that I bounce really well. (Kiara) I would kill anyone who hurt you. (Nykyrian)

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.