America Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

— Edith Wharton

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

— Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was…

— Peter Scott

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of…

— Gayl Jones

When did America forget that it's America?

— Natan Sharansky

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

— Nguyen Van Thieu

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

— Gerald Stanley Lee

America is a nation with many flaws that only the stupid would deny, but with hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse…

— James A. Michener