William Shakespeare Quotes About Weakness

• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

• The weakest goes to the wall.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Weakness, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.4, Hackett Publishing

• How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Weakness, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.176

• To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Giving, Weakness

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

• Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
  'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Weakness, Avoided

  1592 Margaret. HenryVI PartThree, act 5, sc.4, l.37-8.

• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

• Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,
  Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,
  Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Art, Husband

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

• To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
  Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
  And so your follies fight against yourself.
  Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;
  And fight and die is death destroying death,
  Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Fighting, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

• Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.
  Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Age, Weakness

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

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