S Pepys Quotes

#1. He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Samuel Pepys

#2. Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

Samuel Pepys

#3. And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

Samuel Pepys

#4. Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

Samuel Pepys

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

Samuel Pepys

#6. My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

Samuel Pepys

#7. Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.

Samuel Pepys

#8. I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

Ben Schott

#9. 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.

Samuel Pepys

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

Samuel Pepys

#11. Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all!

Samuel Pepys

#12. I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.

Danielle Dutton

#13. A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever

Samuel Pepys

#14. I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Samuel Pepys

#15. I know not how to abstain from reading.

Samuel Pepys

#16. At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

Samuel Pepys

#17. But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Samuel Pepys

#18. But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

Samuel Pepys

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

Samuel Pepys

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

Samuel Pepys

#21. 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.

Samuel Pepys

#22. I enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page be page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT.

Helene Hanff

#23. 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

Samuel Pepys

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

Samuel Pepys

#25. God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

Samuel Pepys

#26. Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Samuel Pepys

#27. 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.

Samuel Pepys

#28. 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.

Samuel Pepys

#29. Suddenly I think that if I must retire from city life I might just as well live in France, where I would be happy, and I put the thought away as a private dream. - Elizabeth Pepys

Sara George

#30. In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

Chris Riddell

#31. If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

Antonia Fraser

#32. I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Samuel Pepys