20 Famous Quotes That Were Never Actually Spoken

13. "England And America Are Two Countries Divided By A Common Language" - George Bernard Shaw

Look through all of Shaw's writing and this quote simply does not appear, even once.

However, Oscar Wilde did write a similar phrase in The Canterville Ghost in 1887 - before Shaw supposedly coined the term. Wilde wrote: "We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."

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