Quote, misquote

I always thought that the "two nations divided by a common language" was Mark Twain???

Hello absent, I finally found it.
www.quoteinvestigator.com/2012/05/28/renoir-paint/
According to this article Renoir was responsible for both the quotes you mentioned.

I could not find it on page 521 of my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations .

johanna I'm not sure exactly the word Renoir said but it was along the lines of "I use my brush to make love" which sounds a much lovelier idea than the above mentioned misquote.

Indeed greatnan, thank you.

Know thine enemy!

Thanks mrsmopp and greatnan
I had completely forgotten about this thread.
Good fun, is it not?
Must resume my search for the painter who did not paint with his prick.

Mae West said : Why don't you come up sometime, and see me?

Greatnan you know your bible very well?

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime"

absent
Now you have given me a task.......

johanna That is a truly devious response that leaves me in limbo. Are you smiling sweetly because it is there on your page 521? Honestly, I don't have a reference book with misquotes on page 521 and now I am totally intrigued. I'll have to come up with something else that might not be on your page 521. How about:

"I paint it with my prick" which was never said by Renoir?

absent

Definitely mischievous but page 521 of what johanna? Do you have on that page of whatever book you are talking about:
Pride doesn't go before a fall.
Pride goeth before adversity and an haughty spirit before a fall?

Oh, come on now johanna - we could all look them up, but where's the fun in that?

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

"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.

The character IIs Lund said play for me Sam

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

but only in a film

'Elementary my dear Watson' is from Sherlock Homes!

Nothing to do with P.G. Wodehouse.

Psmith Journalist?
1915?