America Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered,” said Mr. Erskine; “I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

— Oscar Wilde

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

— Oscar Wilde

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in…

— Victor Hugo

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

— Sean Connery

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

— Oscar Wilde

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

— Gerald Stanley Lee

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed…

— Mike Harding

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they…

— Eduardo Galeano

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him,…

— Bill Cowher

“Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belem to the Malabar Coast: first to…

— Salman Rushdie