Quotes by Samuel Pepys

“Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ”

“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”

“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”

“As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!”

“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”

“Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.”

“The best of a bad bargain.”

“I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.”

“Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.”

“I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.”

“Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.”

“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exemp...”

“And so to bed.”

“I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.”

“A good honest and painfull sermon.”

“Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.”

“Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.”

“But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.”

“Pretty witty Nell.”

“This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and Lord have mercy upon us writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the fi...”