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.

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

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.