Samuel Pepys Quotes about Wife

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.

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, Giving, Wife

Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2195, Delphi Classics

My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

Samuel Pepys

Lonely, Wife, Poor

'Diary' 19 December 1662

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

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