Author

Samuel Pepys

4 quotations

About Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is now most renowned for the diary he kept for almost a decade. It is considered one of the most notable diaries ever written, particularly for its detailed personal accounts of his everyday life, the Great Plague of London and the Fire of London. For historians it is an important primary source of the Stuart Restoration and of upper-middle class London life at the ti…

Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Samuel Pepys
Topics: Friendship Smile Wedding Newyears
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.
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!