I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Feeble folk are as easily reassured as they are frightened.[Les gens faibles se rassurent aussi facilement qu’ils se sont effrayés.]
Every generation had its weaklings – that that was one of the penalties of greatness – but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.
Every form of strength covers one weakness and creates another, and therefore every form of strength is also a form of weakness and every weakness a strength.
Do you really think that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
As a rule there’s little evil but a lot of human frailty.
A guy needed to keep an eye on his weak points, rule number one, because anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
