promise-breach

If thou hast genius and poverty to thy lot, dwell on the foolish, perplexing, imprudent, dangerous, and even immoral, conduct of promise-breach in small things, of want of punctuality, of procrastination in all its shapes and disguises.

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Ingratitude to my Maker! and to my benefactors ” injustice! and unnatural cruelty to my poor children! ” self-contempt for my repeated promise-breach, nay, too often, actual falsehood!

Selected English Letters Various 1913