Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Film ·85 of 348
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
They never said that.
What people say
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
What was actually said
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett Butler — Gone with the Wind (1939)
Why it stuck
Not a misquote by words — but Rhett says it flat and slow. Parodies and impressions give it emphasis on "damn"; the film plays it casually, almost muttered.
Included because inflection is as often misremembered as vocabulary.
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