Samuel Pepys Quotes

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Hardly one lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of virginalls in it.

A most horrid malicious bloody flame… It made me weep to see it.

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

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

The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.