Source: Recollections on the French Revolution
Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”
Widely attributed to Shaw begin31 (187ning in the 1940s, esp. after appearing in the November 1942 Reader’s Digest, the quotation is actually a variant of "Indeed, in many respects, she [Mrs. Otis] was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" from Oscar Wilde's 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost".
Misattributed
Variant: The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.
Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 5, “Summertide Minus Thirty” (p. 61)
“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”
A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234
Editorial (1956) on importance of preservation rather than breaches of world peace.
Saturday Review
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 56
“Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.”
Memoirs of Napoleon (1829-1831)
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
