Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 April 1599
design drink gone haste
It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone
otherwise pay remark
Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
fit sit
It is not fit that you should sit here any longer!
desire flatter freely mr otherwise paint pay picture remark skill warts
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it
shall
What shall we do with this bauble? There, take it away.
god names done-with-you
You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
i-have-learned fear-god ifs
I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.
physicians environment can-do
Nature can do more than physicians
be-good
Those who stop being better stop being good.
god historian shaking
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
shining crowds resolution
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
sheep government woods
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
be-good cease
He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.
trust cheer shouting
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.