Quote#Desire
Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture…
Quote byOliver Cromwell · 1599–1658
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England (1762-1771) by Horace Walpole often credited as being the origin of the phrase "warts and all". Variant: Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling..
English (original)
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
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