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

Let not the solemn pretender to decorum, who, in proportion to his demureness, is apt to be worse than others, with owlish visage quote, "frailty, thy name is woman," or, "e'er those shoes were old," or whatever musty apothegms besides, as stale and senseless.

From Project Gutenberg