Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Play ·290 of 348
"The stuff that dreams are made of."
They never said that.
What people say
"The stuff that dreams are made of."
What was actually said
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Prospero — The Tempest (IV.i)
Why it stuck
Humphrey Bogart rewords it in The Maltese Falcon (1941) — "the stuff that dreams are made of" — and the film line overtook the Shakespearean original in popular memory.
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