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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. - Alphonse de Lamartine More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy. - Hugh Latimer Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise! - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely. - E. Lynn Linton Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story! - Amy Lowell, The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7) There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. - James Russell Lowell It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. - John Stuart Mill To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering. - John Milton If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. - John Milton, Samson Agonistes (l. 831) The weakness of women has been given them to call forth the virtues of men. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn Soft without weakness; without glaring, gay. - Alexander Pope Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 249) Fine by defect, and delicately weak. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 43) The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Weaklings must lie. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) The feeble howl with the wolves, bray with the asses, and bleat with the sheep. - Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. - George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant) Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. - John Scogin, Jests The weakest goes to the wall. - William Shakespeare How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Leontes at I, ii) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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