Samuel Pepys famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Wedding #People #Delight
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
-- Samuel Pepys

#Happiness #Smile #Men
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Dinner #Strange #Feasting
Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
-- Samuel Pepys

#God #Drinking #Wine
And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Fashion #Cutting #People
Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Running #Wings #Fire
Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Artist #Hands #Doe
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 exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Differences #Mind #Age
Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
-- Samuel Pepys

#World #Grows
But it is pretty to see what money will do.
-- Samuel Pepys
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Friendship #Real Friends #Bed
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Morning #Men #People
The best of a bad bargain.
-- Samuel Pepys
I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Prayer #Night #Wife
My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Lonely #Wife #Poor
I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Kings #Men #Done
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 in that condition.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Happiness #Men #Cheerful
The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Men #Knowing #Age
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Music #Giving #Way
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Leadership #Kings #Rain
He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Pounds #Pins
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Opportunity #Wife #Giving
It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins
-- Samuel Pepys

#Pain #Night #Wind
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Laughing #Jeering #Looks
I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Business #Giving #Way
I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
-- Samuel Pepys

#Home #Wife #Dinner

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