Quotes and Images From The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Samuel Pepys
My intention to learn to trill
Necessary, and yet the peace is so bad
in its terms
Never laughed so in all my life. I
laughed till my head ached
Never, while he lives, truckle under
any body or any faction
Never to trust too much to any man in
the world
Never was known to keep two mistresses
in his life (Charles II.)
Never could man say worse himself nor
have worse said
New Netherlands to English rule, under
the title of New York
No Parliament can, as he says, be kept
long good
No manner of means used to quench the
fire
No pleasure--only the variety of it
No money to do it with, nor anybody to
trust us without it
No man is wise at all times
No man was ever known to lose the first
time
No man knowing what to do, whether to
sell or buy
No sense nor grammar, yet in as good
words that ever I saw
No good by taking notice of it, for the
present she forbears
Nonconformists do now preach openly in
houses
None will sell us any thing without our
personal security given
Nor would become obliged too much to
any
Nor will yield that the Papists have
any ground given them
Nor was there any pretty woman that I
did see, but my wife
Nor offer anything, but just what is
drawn out of a man
Not well, and so had no pleasure at all
with my poor wife
Not eat a bit of good meat till he has
got money to pay the men
Not the greatest wits, but the steady
man
Not when we can, but when we list
Not to be censured if their necessities
drive them to bad
Not more than I expected, nor so much
by a great deal as I ought
Not thinking them safe men to receive
such a gratuity
Not permit her begin to do so, lest
worse should follow
Nothing in the world done with true
integrity
Nothing in it approaching that single
page in St. Simon
Nothing of the memory of a man, an
houre after he is dead!
Nothing is to be got without offending
God and the King
Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but
mere envy and design
Now above six months since (smoke from
the cellars)
Offer me L500 if I would desist from
the Clerk of the Acts place
Offered to stop the fire near his house
for such a reward
Officers are four years behind-hand
unpaid
Once a week or so I know a gentleman
must go . . . .
Opening his mind to him as of one that
may hereafter be his foe
Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my
quantum out of it
Ordered in the yarde six or eight
bargemen to be whipped
Origin in the use of a plane against
the grain of the wood
Out also to and fro, to see and be seen
Painful to keep money, as well as to
get it
Parliament being vehement against the
Nonconformists
Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for
every chimney in England
Parliament do agree to throw down
Popery
Parson is a cunning fellow he is as any
of his coat
Peace with France, which, as a
Presbyterian, he do not like
Pen was then turned Quaker
Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of
its nits
Peruques of hair, as the fashion now is
for ladies to wear
Pest coaches and put her into it to
carry her to a pest house
Petition against hackney coaches
Pit, where the bears are baited
Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665)
Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in
fears of it here
Plague, forty last night, the bell
always going
Play good, but spoiled with the ryme,
which breaks the sense
Pleases them mightily, and me not at
all
Poor seamen that lie starving in the
streets
Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and
Gloves
Pray God give me a heart to fear a
fall, and to prepare for it!
Presbyterians against the House of
Lords
Presse seamen, without which we cannot
really raise men
Pressing in it as if none of us had
like care with him
Pretends to a resolution of being
hereafter very clean
Pretty sayings, which are generally
like paradoxes
Pretty to see the young pretty ladies
dressed like men
Pride of some persons and vice of most
was but a sad story
Pride and debauchery of the present
clergy
Protestants as to the Church of Rome
are wholly fanatiques
Providing against a foule day to get as
much money into my hands
Put up with too much care, that I have
forgot where they are
Quakers being charmed by a string about
their wrists
Quakers do still continue, and rather
grow than lessen
Quakers and others that will not have
any bell ring for them
Rabbit not half roasted, which made me
angry with my wife
Raising of our roofs higher to enlarge
our houses
Reading to my wife and brother
something in Chaucer
Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae,"
of my Lord Bacon's
Receive the applications of people, and
hath presents
Reckon nothing money but when it is in
the bank
Reduced the Dutch settlement of New
Netherlands to English rule
Rejoiced over head and ears in this
good newes
Removing goods from one burned house to
another
Reparation for what we had embezzled
Requisite I be prepared against the
man's friendship
Resolve to have the doing of it
himself, or else to hinder it
Resolve to live well and die a beggar
Resolved to go through it, and it is
too late to help it now
Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch
business
Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by
Will. Pen, for the Quaker
Rotten teeth and false, set in with
wire
Sad sight it was: the whole City almost
on fire
Sad for want of my wife, whom I love
with all my heart
Said to die with the cleanest hands
that ever any Lord Treasurer
Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content
Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no
great sport
Saw his people go up and down louseing
themselves
Saying, that for money he might be got
to our side
Says, of all places, if there be hell,
it is here
Says of wood, that it is an excrescence
of the earth
Sceptic in all things of religion
Scotch song of "Barbary Allen"
Searchers with their rods in their
hands
See whether my wife did wear drawers
to-day as she used to do
See how a good dinner and feasting
reconciles everybody
See how time and example may alter a
man
Sent my wife to get a place to see
Turner hanged
Sent me last night, as a bribe, a
barrel of sturgeon
Sermon without affectation or study
Sermon ended, and the church broke up,
and my amours ended also
Sermon upon Original Sin, neither
understood by himself
Sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian
one, it was so long
Shakespeare's plays
Shame such a rogue should give me and
all of us this trouble
She is conceited that she do well
already
She used the word devil, which vexed me
She was so ill as to be shaved and
pidgeons put to her feet
She begins not at all to take pleasure
in me or study to please
She is a very good companion as long as
she is well
She also washed my feet in a bath of
herbs, and so to bed
She had got and used some puppy-dog
water
She hath got her teeth new done by La
Roche
She loves to be taken dressing herself,
as I always find her
She so cruel a hypocrite that she can
cry when she pleases
She finds that I am lousy
Short of what I expected, as for the
most part it do fall out
Shy of any warr hereafter, or to
prepare better for it
Sick of it and of him for it
Sicke men that are recovered, they
lying before our office doors
Silence; it being seldom any wrong to a
man to say nothing
Singing with many voices is not singing
Sir W. Pen was so fuddled that we could
not try him to play
Sir W. Pen did it like a base raskall,
and so I shall remember
Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call
the wench up to wash
Slabbering my band sent home for
another
Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel
fixed in the chimney
So home to supper, and to bed, it being
my wedding night
So great a trouble is fear
So to bed, to be up betimes by the
helpe of a larum watch
So much is it against my nature to owe
anything to any body
So home, and after supper did wash my
feet, and so to bed
So home to prayers and to bed
So I took occasion to go up and to bed
in a pet
So to bed in some little discontent,
but no words from me
So home and to supper with beans and
bacon and to bed
So we went to bed and lay all night in
a quarrel
So much wine, that I was even almost
foxed
So good a nature that he cannot deny
any thing
So time do alter, and do doubtless the
like in myself
So home and to bed, where my wife had
not lain a great while
So out, and lost our way, which made me
vexed
So every thing stands still for money
Softly up to see whether any of the
beds were out of order or no
Some merry talk with a plain bold maid
of the house
Some ends of my own in what advice I do
give her
Sorry in some respect, glad in my
expectations in another respect
Sorry for doing it now, because of
obliging me to do the like
Sorry thing to be a poor King
Spares not to blame another to defend
himself
Sparrowgrass
Speaks rarely, which pleases me
mightily
Spends his time here most, playing at
bowles
Sport to me to see him so earnest on so
little occasion
Staid two hours with her kissing her,
but nothing more
Statute against selling of offices
Staying out late, and painting in the
absence of her husband
Strange things he has been found guilty
of, not fit to name
Strange the folly of men to lay and
lose so much money
Strange how civil and tractable he was
to me
Street ordered to be continued, forty
feet broad, from Paul's
Subject to be put into a disarray upon
very small occasions
Such open flattery is beastly
Suffered her humour to spend, till we
begun to be very quiet
Supper and to bed without one word one
to another
Suspect the badness of the peace we
shall make
Swear they will not go to be killed and
have no pay
Take pins out of her pocket to prick me
if I should touch her
Talk very highly of liberty of
conscience
Taught my wife some part of subtraction
Tax the same man in three or four
several capacities
Tear all that I found either boyish or
not to be worth keeping
Tell me that I speak in my dreams
That I might not seem to be afeared
That I may have nothing by me but what
is worth keeping
That I may look as a man minding
business
The unlawfull use of lawfull things
The devil being too cunning to
discourage a gamester
The most ingenious men may sometimes be
mistaken
"The Alchymist,"--[Comedy by Ben Jonson]
The barber came to trim me and wash me
The present Irish pronunciation of
English
The world do not grow old at all
The ceremonies did not please me, they
do so overdo them
The rest did give more, and did believe
that I did so too
Thence by coach, with a mad coachman,
that drove like mad
Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I
would with her
There is no passing but by coach in the
streets, and hardly that
There eat and drank, and had my
pleasure of her twice
There did 'tout ce que je voudrais
avec' her
There setting a poor man to keep my
place
There is no man almost in the City
cares a turd for him
There being ten hanged, drawn, and
quartered
These young Lords are not fit to do any
service abroad
These Lords are hard to be trusted
They were so false spelt that I was
ashamed of them
They want where to set their feet, to
begin to do any thing
This day churched, her month of
childbed being out
This absence makes us a little strange
instead of more fond
This week made a vow to myself to drink
no wine this week
This day I began to put on buckles to
my shoes
This unhappinesse of ours do give them
heart
This kind of prophane, mad
entertainment they give themselves
Those absent from prayers were to pay a
forfeit
Those bred in the North among the
colliers are good for labour
Though he knows, if he be not a fool,
that I love him not
Thus it was my chance to see the King
beheaded at White Hall
Tied our men back to back, and thrown
them all into the sea
To Mr. Holliard's in the morning,
thinking to be let blood
To be enjoyed while we are young and
capable of these joys
To see Major-general Harrison hanged,
drawn; and quartered
To the Swan and drank our morning draft
To see the bride put to bed
Too much of it will make her know her
force too much
Took physique, and it did work very
well
Tory--The term was not used politically
until about 1679
Tried the effect of my silence and not
provoking her
Trouble, and more money, to every
Watch, to them to drink
Troubled me, to see the confidence of
the vice of the age
Trumpets were brought under the
scaffold that he not be heard
Turn out every man that will be drunk,
they must turn out all
Two shops in three, if not more,
generally shut up
Uncertainty of all history
Uncertainty of beauty
Unless my too-much addiction to
pleasure undo me
Unquiet which her ripping up of old
faults will give me
Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick
of her months
Up, finding our beds good, but lousy;
which made us merry
Up and took physique, but such as to go
abroad with
Upon a very small occasion had a
difference again broke out
Venison-pasty that we have for supper
to-night to the cook's
Very angry we were, but quickly friends
again
Very great tax; but yet I do think it
is so perplexed
Vexed at my wife's neglect in leaving
of her scarf
Vexed me, but I made no matter of it,
but vexed to myself
Vices of the Court, and how the pox is
so common there
Voyage to Newcastle for coles
Waked this morning between four and
five by my blackbird
Was kissing my wife, which I did not
like
We are to go to law never to revenge,
but only to repayre
We had a good surloyne of rost beefe
Weary of it; but it will please the
citizens
Weather being very wet and hot to keep
meat in.
What way a man could devise to lose so
much in so little time
What I said would not hold water
What I had writ foule in short hand
What they all, through profit or fear,
did promise
What a sorry dispatch these great
persons give to business
What is there more to be had of a woman
than the possessing her
Where money is free, there is great
plenty
Where I find the worst very good
Where a piece of the Cross is
Where a trade hath once been and do
decay, it never recovers
Where I expect most I find least
satisfaction
Wherein every party has laboured to
cheat another
Which he left him in the lurch
Which I did give him some hope of,
though I never intend it
Whip this child till the blood come, if
it were my child!
Whip a boy at each place they stop at
in their procession
Who is the most, and promises the
least, of any man
Who we found ill still, but he do make
very much of it
Who must except against every thing and
remedy nothing
Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be
seen with him
Willing to receive a bribe if it were
offered me
Wine, new and old, with labells pasted
upon each bottle
Wise man's not being wise at all times
Wise men do prepare to remove abroad
what they have
With much ado in an hour getting a
coach home
With a shower of hail as big as walnuts
Wonders that she cannot be as good
within as she is fair without
World sees now the use of them for
shelter of men (fore-castles)
Would make a dogg laugh
Would either conform, or be more wise,
and not be catched!
Would not make my coming troublesome to
any
Wretch, n., often used as an expression
of endearment
Wronged by my over great expectations
Ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of
ye fire
If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations,
select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open
the following eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or
search operation.
The Diaries of Samuel Pepys, Complete
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext03/sp85g10.txt