Quote

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

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Error
Discovered
Suppose
Errors
Merely
America
Ever
Detected
Vulgar

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
Image
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
Oscar Wilde
Image
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.
Oscar Wilde