The complete online text of Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys.

The English diarist and public official Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) kept a diary that provides a graphic account of English social life and conditions during the early period of the Restoration. Samuel Pepys was born on Feb. 23, 1633, in London. His father...

In a 1695 memorandum in his diary Samuel Pepys wrote that he intended for his collection of books to differ from the "Extensive, Pompous, and Stationary Libraries of Princes, Universities, Colleges and other Publick-Societies" and from the "Voluminous Co...

Samuel Pepys, author of the finest and bestknown diary in English, was born in Salisbury Court near Fleet Street in London on 23 February 1633. He was the fifth of eleven children, of whom only three (Pepys the eldest) survived to adulthood. His father,...

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Samuel Pepys was born in 1633, the son of a tailor. In 1656 he entered the household of Sir Edward Montagu, who later became first earl of Sandwich, and because of Montagu's patronage he was able to improve his lot considerably. Pepys became...