Impressions of America Quotes

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

– Oscar Wilde

One is impressed in America, but not favourably impressed, by the inordinate size of everything. The country seems to try to bully one into a belief in its power by its impressive bigness.

– Oscar Wilde

Impressions of America

I was disappointed with Niagara – most people must be disappointed with Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

– Oscar Wilde

Impressions of America

American youths are pale and precocious, or sallow and supercilious, but American girls are pretty and charming – little oases of pretty unreasonableness in a vast desert of practical common-sense.

– Oscar Wilde

Impressions of America

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