Top 25 Quotes by Samuel Pepys of 32 - Page 2

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.

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, Fairs

Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.57

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

'Diary' 25 December 1665

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

Food, Home, Wife

Samuel Pepys (2000). “The Diary of Samuel Pepys”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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.

Samuel Pepys

Sunday, Night, Looks

Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.380, Univ of California Press

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Pepys

Music, Business, Giving

"The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A New and Complete Transcription".

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

Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2272, Delphi Classics

Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.

Samuel Pepys

Clothes, Wife, Lasts

Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.53