#r

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#copy #fame #faults #forfeits #pretense

You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase) a diminished Impressibility from Things, my ideas, wishes, & feelings are to a diseased degree disconnected from motion & action. In plain and natural English, I am a dreaming & therefore an indolent man. I am a Starling self-incaged, & always in the Moult, & my whole Note is, Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#indolence #procrastination #dreams

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#hope #like #trembling

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#criteria #defined #doing #find #how

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured. ↗

— John Kendrick Bangs

#poured #reign

I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one. ↗

— John Kendrick Bangs

#hear #i #lie #tell

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#bad girls #diaries #good #good girls #keep

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#before #behave #her #i #less

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#even #exactly #i #like #me

Every man should see the birth of his children. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#children #every #every man #his #man