Frailty
material tendency to break from stress without significant plastic deformation
(Redirected from Frailer)
- For the film, see Frailty (film).
Frailty is the characteristic of being frail, delicate, easily hurt or damaged.
Quotes
edit- Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell
Draw we here a parallel.
She, like thee, was forced to bear
All reflections, foul or fair.
Thou art deep and bright within,—
Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;
Thou art very frail as well,
Frail as flesh is,—so was Nell.- Samuel Laman Blanchard, Nell Gwynne's Looking Glass (1843), Stanza 1.
- This is the porcelain clay of human kind.
- John Dryden, Don Sebastian (1690), Act I, scene 1.
- Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle To Temple, line 69.
- Frailty, thy name is woman!
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 2, line 146.
- Sometimes we are devils to ourselves,
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
Presuming on their changeful potency.- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act IV, scene 4, line 96.
- Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
For, such as we are made of, such we be.- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 2, line 32.
