Samuel Pepys Quotes

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.

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done as to periwigs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire for fear of the infection-that it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

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.