Samuel Pepys Quotes

• I went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered-which was done there-he looking as cheerfully as any man could do in that condition… Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at Whitehall and to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross.

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• A silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able to pay for it.

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• Boys do now cry ‘Kiss my Parliament!’ instead of ‘Kiss my arse!’ so great and general a contempt is the Rump come to among all men, good and bad.

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• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Samuel Pepys (33)

Birth:	23rd February, 1633
Death:	26th May, 1703
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Politician

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