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Frailty, thy name is woman!

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


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“Without suggesting that chivalry is dead, we no longer hold to Shakespeare’s immortal phrase ‘Frailty, thy name is woman,’ †Judge Mansfield wrote.

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Your account of the Nunneries you have visited, confirms Hamlets verdict: 'Frailty, thy name is woman!'

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He shares no joy on this occasion of his mother's wedding, and his first words are a short recitative about "frailty, thy name is woman."

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This was the sum of his thoughts; being literary, they wandered into quotation: '"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

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"O frailty, thy name is woman."

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