Oliver Cromwell Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Rights, Government, People

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Letters and Speeches”, p.84

• Make the iron hot by striking it.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Iron, Desire

• Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly 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.

  Oliver Cromwell

  War, Skills, Desire

  Quoted in HoraceWalpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England (1763). Usually misquoted as "warts and all."

• My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Desire, Haste, Gone

  1658 Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

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