Quotes by : Samuel Pepys

The best of a bad bargain.

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

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor....

Music and women I cannot but give way to whatever my business is.

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

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after....

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition,....

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

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees in prayer.....