quotes about Frail
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I am a frail vessel full of errors.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
-- Ben JonsonSource : Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3182, Delphi Classics
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
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Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
-- Diane Johnson -
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
-- Diane Setterfield -
For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
-- John Milton -
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
-- Johnny Cash -
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
-- Leslie Fiedler -
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
-- Margaret Deland -
Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.
-- Margaret Way -
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Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.
-- Ruhollah Khomeini -
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.
-- Stephen SchwartzSource : "Song: 'When You Believe'". 1998.
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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
-- Sylvia Plath -
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
-- Thomas OverburySource : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
-- Virginia Woolf