Quote, misquote

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

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

"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.

'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'.

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.

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

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

Credited in a 1905 biography to James McNeil Whistler.

Does anyone know?

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.

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

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