Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
539
AUTHOR:
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
QUOTATION:
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
ATTRIBUTION:
Attributed to GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.—“Picturesque Speech and Patter,” Reader’s Digest, November 1942, p. 100.
This has not been verified in his published writings, but a number of quotation books published after 1942 have included this quotation, without naming the original published source.
