Samuel Pepys Quotes

"Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the 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
(Related: Business, Time, Money, God, Company, Drinking, Mind, Wine)

"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."
- Samuel Pepys
(Related: Wife, People, Delight, Fools, Man, Poor)

"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody."
- Samuel Pepys

"Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."
- Samuel Pepys
(Related: Business, Music, Woman)

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."
- Samuel Pepys
(Related: Bed, Friends)

"As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"
- Samuel Pepys
(Related: Man, Smile, World)

"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
(Related: Man)