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America Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
- The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
- America is one long expectoration.
- It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
- In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an…
- Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
- The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
- I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England,…
- The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
- Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
- The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they…
- America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the…
- In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice:…
- I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
- America is not a country, it is a world.
- When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of…
- There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
- And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the…
- In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon