Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up
In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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 writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.