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Frail Quotes

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

Song: The Beast In Me, Album: American Recordings, 1994

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

Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3182, Delphi Classics

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

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

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

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

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 2, sc. 2.

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

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

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

Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.69, Virginia Woolf

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

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