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I have a secret contempt for all weakness, including my own. Kenneth Williams, Fantabulosa! BBC 2006
Kenneth Williams: You may not realise it but I was once a weak man.
Hattie Jacques: Once a week is enough for any man. Carry on Doctor 1967 starring Frankie Howerd & Kenneth Williams & Sid James & Charles Hawtrey & Jim Dale & Hattie Jaques & Peter Butterworth & Bernard Bresslaw & Barbara Windsor & Joan Sims & Anita Harris & Derek Francis et al, director Gerald Thomas
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. Edmund Burke
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Edmund Burke
How weak a thing
The heart of woman is. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar II iv 41-42
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry. Anthony Hopkins
Being weak is a mistake. Rope 1948 starring James Stewart & John Dall & Farley Granger & John Chandler & Cedric Hardwicke & Constance Collier & Douglas Dick & Edith Evanson et al, director Alfred Hitchcock
Seven of Nine: I have become weak.
Harry: No more than the rest of us. Star Trek: Voyager s4e5: Revulsion
Even the weak become strong when they are united. Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805
The spirit burning but unbent,
May writhe, rebel – the weak alone repent! Lord Byron, The Corsair
Repentance is the virtue of weak minds. John Dryden, 1631-1700, The Indian Emperor
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under! Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
My strength is made perfect in weakness. II Corinthians 12:9
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Romans 15:1
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness. Seneca
Never apologize, mister. It’s a sign of weakness. John Wayne
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies, – are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature. Voltaire
My weakness is wearing too much leopard print. Jackie Collins
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness elicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak. Brene Brown
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Brene Brown
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that’s another weakness. Jack Handy
Amiable weakness. Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, 1749; & Edward Gibbon ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
And the weak soul, within itself unbless’d,
Leans for all pleasure on another’s breast. Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, 1764
If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission. John Milton, Samson Agonistes, 1671
Sometimes Mary became so weak and exhausted through overwork, worry, and lack of proper food that she broke down altogether for the time being, and positively could not do any work at all. Then she used to lie down on the bed in her room and cry. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
They are a weak lot some of them in Europe, you know. Weak. Feeble. Thatcher: The Downing Street Years III: Midnight in Moscow, Twilight in London, re US raid on Tripoli & use of UK bases, BBC 1993
People misinterpret – they think you’re weak, they see an opportunity. The Sopranos s6e5: Mr & Mrs John Sacrimoni Request, Tony to Dr Melfi, HBO 2006
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Sun Tzu, The Art of War