“The worst imposition of all was to be instructed to take on some costly, long-standing obligation to the crown. Such was the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In the 1960s, the Stanford historian Peter Laslett did a careful study of British marriage records and found that at no time… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I found my wife at the kitchen sink and told her the good news. She was more reserved in her enthusiasm than… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Years ago, when my wife and I were dating, she took me on a day trip to the seaside at Brighton. It… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Loudon was even more successful than her husband thanks to a single work, Practical Instructions in Gardening for Ladies, published in… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If one’s husband had been married before and widowed—a fairly common condition—and a close relative of his first wife’s died, the second… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
