Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Book ·218 of 348
"Off with her head!"
They never said that.
What people say
"Off with her head!"
What was actually said
"Off with his head!" The Queen of Hearts — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Why it stuck
The Queen shouts "Off with his head" — about the Seven — in the cards scene. She does command "Off with her head" about Alice later, but the more famous film line (Disney 1951) is the gender-specific one most people remember.
Carroll has the Queen saying some variant of this roughly every two pages.
Know another line by heart?
Play the duel and see how many you can spot. Or browse the whole shelf.