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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Frailty |
| 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. L. Blanchard—Nell Gwynne’s Looking Glass. St. 1. | 1 |
| This is the porcelain clay of human kind. Dryden—Don Sebastian. Act I. Sc. 1. | 2 |
| Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise. Pope—Moral Essays. Ep. To Temple. L. 69. | 3 |
| Frailty, thy name is woman! Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 146. | 4 |
| Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 96. | 5 |
| Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we; For, such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 32. | 6 |
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