HomeQuotes“Frailty, thy name is woman!”114 likes“Frailty, thy name is woman!”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》More from William Shakespeare“The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature;”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》“Sweets to the sweet. Farewell.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》More from 《Hamlet》“Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》“O woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen, see what I see.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》“The spirit that I have seen may be the devil, and the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》Dynamic discoveryYou may also like“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”— Charles Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald《The Great Gatsby》“But woman's freedom is closely allied with man's freedom, and many of my so-called emancipated sisters seem to overlook the fact that a child born in freedom needs the love and devotion of each human being about him, man as well as woman.”— Emma Goldman《Anarchism and Other Essays》“To a woman indifferent to love, every man is the same, and all are men; but to her whose heart is truly susceptible of that refined passion, there is no other man in the world but her lover.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau《Eloisa: or, A series of original letters》“The poets have sung in every key this being who came all beauty from the hands of her Creator; but what is all this physical beauty compared to the spiritual beauty of a noble and high-souled woman?”— Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé《Les Anciens Canadiens》“Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence with thy soul.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning《Sonnets from the Portuguese》“I, unhappy that I am, these eight years have I loved thee more than my life, and thou, as I have felt, art all afire and all consumed with love of a strange woman, wicked and perverse man that thou art!”— Giovanni Boccaccio《The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio》“The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for—neither love, duty, purpose nor hope—holds for her the bitterness of death.”— Lucy Maud Montgomery《The Blue Castle》“He had acknowledged that he himself was not devoid of blame; the woman, he had avowed, had corrupted him body and soul, and Villiers felt that this man, once his friend, had been an actor in scenes evil beyond the power of words.”— Arthur Machen《The Great God Pan》“Sometimes love, for a woman, means only shelter; often, for a man, love means the blending of all knowledge, of all beauty, all ambition, of all that he has learned from books and from life.”— E. Phillips Oppenheim《The Zeppelin's Passenger》“Nowhere could he discern an opening through the formidable barrier; yet somewhere into this inhospitable world of stone the green warrior had borne the woman of the red man’s heart’s desire.”— Edgar Rice Burroughs《Thuvia, Maid of Mars》“Rome, thou art a whole world, it is true, and yet without love this World would not be the world, Rome would cease to be Rome.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe《Roman Elegies》Load more recommendations
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature;”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》
“The spirit that I have seen may be the devil, and the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me.”— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald《The Great Gatsby》
“But woman's freedom is closely allied with man's freedom, and many of my so-called emancipated sisters seem to overlook the fact that a child born in freedom needs the love and devotion of each human being about him, man as well as woman.”— Emma Goldman《Anarchism and Other Essays》
“To a woman indifferent to love, every man is the same, and all are men; but to her whose heart is truly susceptible of that refined passion, there is no other man in the world but her lover.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau《Eloisa: or, A series of original letters》
“The poets have sung in every key this being who came all beauty from the hands of her Creator; but what is all this physical beauty compared to the spiritual beauty of a noble and high-souled woman?”— Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé《Les Anciens Canadiens》
“Say thou dost love me, love me, love me—toll The silver iterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence with thy soul.”— Elizabeth Barrett Browning《Sonnets from the Portuguese》
“I, unhappy that I am, these eight years have I loved thee more than my life, and thou, as I have felt, art all afire and all consumed with love of a strange woman, wicked and perverse man that thou art!”— Giovanni Boccaccio《The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio》
“The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for—neither love, duty, purpose nor hope—holds for her the bitterness of death.”— Lucy Maud Montgomery《The Blue Castle》
“He had acknowledged that he himself was not devoid of blame; the woman, he had avowed, had corrupted him body and soul, and Villiers felt that this man, once his friend, had been an actor in scenes evil beyond the power of words.”— Arthur Machen《The Great God Pan》
“Sometimes love, for a woman, means only shelter; often, for a man, love means the blending of all knowledge, of all beauty, all ambition, of all that he has learned from books and from life.”— E. Phillips Oppenheim《The Zeppelin's Passenger》
“Nowhere could he discern an opening through the formidable barrier; yet somewhere into this inhospitable world of stone the green warrior had borne the woman of the red man’s heart’s desire.”— Edgar Rice Burroughs《Thuvia, Maid of Mars》
“Rome, thou art a whole world, it is true, and yet without love this World would not be the world, Rome would cease to be Rome.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe《Roman Elegies》
