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

– Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 3. Wilde was fond of taking potshots at America and Americans. Mr. Erskine says this to the Duchess of Harley at Aunt Agatha’s party, when she expresses the wish that America had never been discovered.