![]() ![]() living on the memory of crushing defeats"ġ4) "Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train."ġ5) "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 are the most comfortably dressed."ġ6) "America is the noisiest country that ever existed. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead."ġ3) "The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance. OSCAR WILDE QUOTES FULLOscar Wilde quotes about the United Statesġ) "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."Ģ) "America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself."ģ) "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between."Ĥ) "In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."ĥ) “When good Americans die, they go to Paris." "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America” (The Picture of Dorian Gray)Ħ) "I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean."ġ1) "In America the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever."ġ2) "Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Wilde died in Paris, aged 46, on November 30 1900. Here are some of the best quotes about the United States from the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, who was the subject in 2015 of a book called Wilde in America. When he arrived at the Hudson River dock, so the legend goes, a federal customs agent asked him whether he had anything to declare. The playwright and poet, who was born in Dublin on October 16th 1854, visited 150 cities during his talking tour. Oscar Wilde was 27 when he arrived in New York in January 1882. ![]()
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