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Columbus Quotes

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Chauncey Depew “The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892”

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 42, 1799.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.186, Library of America

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press