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
dry powder sure trust
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry
god powder proverbs trust
Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.
fit sit
It is not fit that you should sit here any longer!
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.
god
God made them as stubble to our swords.
fact good
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact
hot iron strike striking
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking
shall
What shall we do with this bauble? There, take it away.
crown cut head
We will cut off his (the king's) head with the crown on it
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
break greatest hath imaginary known law men necessity providence rules
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
high knows man rises
No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
love military army
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.