54 Metaphors for weaknesses

They're immensely valuable; but the one weakness in a criminal is his lack of common sense.

The characteristic weakness of bad writers is inaccuracy: their symbols do not adequately express their ideas.

The three weaknesses to be overcome are Fear, Indulgence, and Jealousy.

It yields the wall to none but a woman, whose weakness is her prerogative; or a man seconded with a woman, as an usher which always goes before his betters.

Now this weakness is a mental and moral sickness, pointing the way to mental and moral death.

To an ordinary man, a weakness is a weakness, he blushes at it; to a man of intelligence, it is a tribute paid to his merits, it is even a proof of our discernment; he eulogizes our good taste and takes the credit of it.

Eva's weakness, you may remember, was hats.

Another individual is a huge, raw-boned, double-jointed giant of a man, whose muscular strength must be enormous, but whose weakness is beer.

The tendency of civil service reform legislation, furthermore, has been to require a certain minimum of education, though it may be feared that the forecast of De Tocqueville remains justified; our national educational weakness is our failure to provide for a "serious higher instruction.

Because weakness is the worst crime.

If however you could attain to that reasonable and chastised opinion of yourself, which should steer a proper mean between these extremes, should make you feel your strength, when menaced by the most terrible adversaries, and your weakness, when soothed by the most fawning parasites, this, my lord, would be the highest perfection to which you could possibly attain.

His weakness was a revelation to Piers though he sought to reassure himself with the reflection that it was the natural outcome of his night's vigil; and moment by moment his compunction grew.

But the weakness which selfish people excuse in themselves becomes a "very different thing" (as they phrase it) in another.

Mr. Clutton Brock has said that the great weakness of English education is the want of a definite aim to put before our children, the want of a philosophy for ourselves.

The greatest weakness in Lord Byron's character was a morbid sensibility to his lameness.

The weakness in the attitude of the militant suffragettes is their senseless destruction of all kinds of property and the constant danger to which they subject innocent people by their outrages.

" "Unfortunately, his weakness isn't mentalor exclusively so.

But after reflection, it did not astonish him too much; the besetting weakness of rogues is vanity in one form or another.

But if the sufferer is very impatient, and, while he is still affected, insists that he is completely well, in this case, too, Time will grant the loan, and the complaint may be shaken off; but life-long weakness and chronic mischief will be the interest paid upon it.

Early in his career he concluded that the greatest weakness among the people of India is their treatment of their women, and he organized what was known as "The Indian Reform Association" for the purpose of promoting the education of women, preventing child marriage, relieving widows from their forlorn ostracism and securing for the daughters of Indian families the same legal and property rights that are enjoyed by the sons.

Weakness is a characteristic of our age.

We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin.

The weaknesses of Germany are her Imperialism, her Junkerism, and her intense, sentimental Nationalism; for the former would have no German ascendancy that was not achieved by force, and, with the latter, made the idea of German ascendancy intolerable to all mankind.

The boy showed, as he walked away, that he was not yet very steady on his feet, but whether the weakness was the result of his malady or his recent trying experience they could not determine.

'im up to public ridicule foh his weakness an' made spoht of 'is infirmities.

54 Metaphors for  weaknesses