When I saw you I fell in love…

[SilverTimpani]

… and you smiled because you knew.

Why am I seeing this quote popping up all over social media attributed to Shakespeare?! I’ve spotted it on several wedding inspo boards on Pinterest, people posting it on Facebook, and prints of it on Etsy.

AIBU to think that if anyone had actually read any Shakespeare or seen any of his plays they’d know pretty instantly from the syntax alone that this isn’t his? And that if you’re going to attribute a quote to a writer for a sign at your wedding, you could as a bare minimum take 15 seconds to google it first?

YANBU.

YANBU

Pet hate of mine on social media, those krappenshite quotes from randoms such as Keanu Reeves and Marilyn Monroe, 'cept they're not.
Why is it always Keanu Reeves, wonder if he knows.

Or Sam Neil.

Or whichever one that handsome rugged looking bloke is called

Sam Elliott!!!!!

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Like that!

🤮
Couldn't sound less like Shakespeare unless he changed his name to Hallmark

A lot of bullshit is falsely attributed to Robin Williams too

When first I gaze upon you, then should
I gasp "Phwooar, mate! I would!"

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

@spotcheck

Like that!

Dear God sort through your notifications 🙏 😂😂

"There are lies, damn lies and internet quotes."
Thelikelylass. Or Mark Twain. Or Churchill. Or Disraeli...

“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet”. Abraham Lincoln

Even when it is a Shakespeare quote they still manage to mangle it.

It’s GLISTERS not glitters FFS.

@spotcheck - please do as
@fatspatscat requested and sort through your notifications. They make me anxious 😁

It's Arrigo Boito, from Verdi's Falstaff.

Come ti vidi
M’innamorai,
E tu sorridi
Perché lo sai.”

It's confused with Shakespeare because obviously Falstaff is based on The Merry Wives of Windsor.

FatOaf made me snort

While we're on the subject, AA Milne never had any of his characters say, "You don't spell love, you feel it". Nor 90% of the other 'quotes' attributed to him and turned into overpriced 'wall art'....

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@DrSbaitso

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Nice one!

@Mycatismadeofstringcheese

“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet”. Abraham Lincoln

Ditto

@BeauxRingarde

It's Arrigo Boito, from Verdi's Falstaff.

Come ti vidi
M’innamorai,
E tu sorridi
Perché lo sai.”

It's confused with Shakespeare because obviously Falstaff is based on The Merry Wives of Windsor.

That!

I recognise the quote, know it isn't our William and I know the QI Elves did a piece on it a while ago. It pops up all over the place, apparently!

Oops! Tht's Quote IInverstigator, not QI the telly programme!

'You're my type on papyrus'

• Antony to Cleopatra

"He's thick as shit, but fit as fuck"

Juliet on Romeo