Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Film ·182 of 348
"Mirror, mirror on the wall."
They never said that.
What people say
"Mirror, mirror on the wall."
What was actually said
"Magic mirror on the wall." The Evil Queen — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Why it stuck
The repetition is musical — reduplication is a famously sticky rhetorical device. "Magic mirror" doesn't chime the same way.
Know another line by heart?
Play the duel and see how many you can spot. Or browse the whole shelf.