Frailty, thy name is woman!

Cultural  

1. From Hamlet by William Shakespeare; this proverb is taken to mean that women are weaker than men.

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Example Sentences

God is a preacher who preaches to himself," while Peter was a grave student of life who at ten wrote an essay on "Frailty thy name is Woman": "I do not think that this is true.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so, when Shakespeare asserts,— "Frailty, thy name is woman," he is delivering one of the hasty judgments that abound in his solemn romanticism.

From Project Gutenberg

"O, Frailty! thy name is woman!"

From Project Gutenberg

Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: And yet, within a month,— Let me not think on't,—Frailty, thy name is Woman!—

From Project Gutenberg

The scene with Ophelia that immediately follows is the development of another theme in the first soliloquy, "Frailty! thy name is woman."

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