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 cheerful as any man could do in that condition.

Mr. Moore-tól hallom a nagy újságot, hogy Lady Castlemaine kegyvesztett lett és ma reggel elhagyta az udvart. Okát nem tudja, csak azt, hogy így van, amit én nagyon sajnálok, de ha a király nemcsak őt hagyja el, hanem a többi szeretőit is, akkor szívből örülök ennek, mert úgy lehet, akkor majd többet törődik az ország dolgaival.

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.

George Vines felvitt a tornya tetejébe, ahol az áruló Cooke feje van kitűzve, meg Harrisoné a Westminster Hall másik oldalán. Innen jól láttam őket, és a szép londoni panorámát is.

Úgy hozta hát a véletlen, hogy lássam a király lefejezését a White Hall udvarán, és lássam az első vért is, amely a király megbosszulására kiontatott a Charing Crosson. Polcokat állítattam be dolgozószobámba.

Hanem ezentúl kevésbé tisztelem a királyokat, látva, hogy az esőnek ők sem tudnak parancsolni.

But I could not stay with him myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again.

23rd. This my birthday, 28 years.

This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.

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.

"All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique is not able to number the days of a man;" which, God knows, is not the fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing.

A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever

this disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs.

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.

But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.