Quote, misquote

Good quotes to quote though. Somebody should have said them.

Was it Oscar Wilde who replied to a friends comment ' I wish I'd said that' with 'you will'?

I think it was the other way round. Oscar said "I wish I had said that" and the friend said "You will, Oscar, you will."
Whether it is true or not I have no idea.

Does anyone know?

Credited in a 1905 biography to James McNeil Whistler.

I thought it was Winston Churchill who said 'countries divided by a common language' thingmy.

I thought "two nations divided by a common language" was George Bernard Shaw!

Just Googled "two nations divided". It it seems most widely attribited to GBS. It probably wasn't in any of his published works. From what I understand about him he wasnt one to ever resist the opportunity to make a cynical pronouncement of any sort.

'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?' is usually quoted correctly but with the wrong emphasis. Juliet is not asking where he is, but why he belongs to the wrong family, so no pause is required before the final word.

Hamlet does not say 'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well' but 'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio'.

"Elementary my dear Watson" is from P.G Wodehouse.

The closest to " Beam me up Scotty " is " Beam us up Mr. Scott " , by Gene Rodden berry, creator of Startrek.

" We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language". Oscar Wilde.

That's interesting, johanna, about PG Wodehouse. I've never heard of an alternative source for the phrase before.

Me neither , what book was that in ? I have most of his .

Psmith Journalist?
1915?

'Elementary my dear Watson' is from Sherlock Homes!

Nothing to do with P.G. Wodehouse.

but only in a film

Like it , I have to say I also thought it was Sherlock Holmes !

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the stories by Conan Doyle. However, that phrase has been used frequently in the movies and was even mistakenly cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for 1937 and 1948. The actual quotation is as follows:

"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom."
"Excellent!" I cried.
"Elementary," said he. "It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the reader.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
Watson and Holmes in "The Crooked Man" (Doubleday p. 412)

www.bestofsherlock.com/top-10-sherlock-quotes.htm#elementary

But PG Wodehouse did use the phrase mentioned in the OP in his 1915 book, 'PSmith Journalist', as johanna has said.

Films have a lot to answer for - I remember 'Objective Burma' where Errol Flynn rescued Burma single-handedly - the British were apparently not involved.
I don't like film or TV makers taking liberties with my favourite authors - Austen, Hardy and Eliot - but I have to say that the latest attempts have been very good.

James Cagney once said in an interview that he never said "You dirty rat".

Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca.

The character IIs Lund said play for me Sam

Bogart said You played it for her , play it for me , play it

"Crisis. What crisis?" What James Callaghan actually said in that difficult January in 1979 was, "I don't think other people in the world share the view there is a mounting chaos". The Sun had other ideas – and short space for their headlines.

absent
You are very mischievous , just working your way down the page?
It is page 521 in my Edition.