Famous Last Words

[Az]

Post quotes of your favorite last words. Fictional or Nonfictional. I will start out with three.

Personally my favorite last words were Oscar Wilde's.

Either that wallpaper goes or I do. - Oscar Wilde.

An honorable mention goes to General John Sedgwick who's last words were ... well

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." (General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864)

And of course for fiction I kind of like this one.

Where did all those Indians come from? - General George Custer at Little Big Horn.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Famous last words of a redneck - "Hey ya'll watch this."

[EnviroBat]

5. That's our favorite phrase at bonfires!

[Robb]

15. I believe it's, "Hold my beer, y'all watch this."

:D

[RogueSpirit]

2. Socrates...

"I drank what?"

[Az]

3. hehe I forgot that one

Also

Needs sugar. - Socrates last words.

[datasuspect]

14. "tell asclepius i owe him a cock"

i think.

[Debi]

26. Heh!

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5955

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Chris Knight: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"

[Guava Jelly]

4. Captain James T Kirk

"Oh My"

[mainegreen]

6. Not famous, but at least fairly common: 'What the?'

:D

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. equally popular - "Aw shi.."

:rofl:

[Twillig]

40. I wasn't a regular watcher of Cheers, but Karla (?) said that

those were the unforgettable last words of somebody she knew.

It worked on my funnybone, not my mom's. :-)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. "Pardonnez-moi, Monsieur"

said Marie Antoinette after stepping on her executioner's toes on her walk to the guillotine.

Or, "Thomas Jefferson still survives", said John Adams just before dying. He was wrong. TJ died earlier that day.

[genie_weenie]

9. "Shoot staight, you bastards - don't make a mess of it!"

Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant.

[Aristus]

10. John H. "Doc" Holliday:

"This is funny..."

No one knows to what he was referring.

The movie "Tombstone" has him utter the remark in relation to the fact that the violent killer died "with his boots off", that is, of natural causes.

[Twillig]

41. In "Waterworld" ......

Somebody on DU pointed this out once. And, as it happened, one day Waterworld was playing on TV. I happened across it and let it go for a while. And what was foretold came to be:

Some old slave guy deep deep in the bowels of some ship is thigh deep in shit or something, maybe oil, and there is an attack on the ship. A flare or dynamite is thrown in and makes its way down to him. He sees it coming from above and recognizes it for what it will do: Blow up the ship.

"Thank god."

:rofl:


I am glad to have seen it, and then to have watched something else. Thank you forgotten DU'er!

[jobycom]

11. Lord Palmerston: Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

[Squatch]

12. Now...I've got to see a man about a horse.

I forgot which movie that came from, but I know it was a western.

[hellbound-liberal]

29. I've been trying to find the origin of that quote for years!

I seem to remember hearing it coming from Jimmy Stewart but I can't find anybody who knows it.

[Squatch]

31. That's right!! It *was* Jimmy Stewart. Maybe...

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"?

[Inchworm]

13. Money can't buy life....

Bob Marley talkin to his son.

:hi:

[northzax]

19. shades of Queen Elizabeth

"all my possessions for a moment of time..."

on edit, Queen Elizabeth, not Victoria as originally stated.

[Inchworm]

21. I found it ironic

I imagine the conversation with Bob Marley and his son. All the struggle etc, and the son says (I'm guessing) Dad you are rich! Find a doctor who can fix you and pay him anything!

:shrug:

[SacredCow]

16. For the gamers....

Seargent to the Covenent Elite as the Pillar of Autumn explodes..... "This is it, baby- Hold me."

[northzax]

17. Tolstoy:

"even in the valley of the shadow of death: two and two do not make six" in reference to his friends trying to convince him to take the last sacraments.

more:

"don't let it end like this, tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa

"It's been a long time since I've had champagne" - Chekov

[bertha katzenengel]

18. I know Gertrude Stein said something great, but i don't remember what!

:blush:

[northzax]

20. in that case, what is the question?

or so it is reported.

[LanternWaste]

22. My grandfather's last words to me were, "That thing better not be loaded...."

My grandfather's last words to me were, "That thing better not be loaded...."


(Not really, but if you use that as an answer in a really dead-pan way, the look on the the face of the person who asked it is priceless...)

[Deep13]

23. Hey! You're O.J. Simpson!

Ron Goldman

[Throwing Stones]

24. I've always liked Einstein's

"lighten up", at least according to Tom Robbins.

[Smooth Operator]

25. Chris Hubbock

"And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide."

killed herself during a live broadcast in Sarasota, Florida

[gizmonic]

27. "Stay away, this thing will hurt someone" -- R. Budd Dwyer

[NoGOPZone]

28. Mobster Dutch Schultz

"Come on, open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please help me up, Henry. Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone!"

http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dutch.html

[Richard Steele]

30. You already quoted my fave. Hard to top General Sedgwick! nm

[trof]

32. Aircraft voice recorders, seconds before crash: "SHIT"

It's true.
Most often uttered last word.
And usually not hysterically, just resignedly.

[maveric]

33. Dont worry. Its only 110! (volts).

And then I called the EMT's to revive my old friend who was upgrading the wiring in his garage.

[SKKY]

34. Kurt Cobain's last words come to mind...

"Hole is gonna be huge!"

[hellbound-liberal]

35. Joan Crawford and Edgar Allen Poe

Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.(To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud )-Joan Crawford
Lord help my poor soul.-Edgar Allen Poe

Fictional- "What does this button do?" -From a very sick joke

[steelemagnolia]

36. "On the contrary." Henrik Ibsen

[steelemagnolia]

37. Pablo Piccaso:

"Drink to me!"

[Joe Fields]

38. "They won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore." Checkers speech.

[BlueJazz]

39. When Jesus was on the Cross...

"Whoa...Paul...I can see your house from up here!"

[YankeyMCC]

42. "Timshel"

Adam Trask - "East of Eden"

[Xipe Totec]

43. How do you light this bong?

- Kurt Cobain, 5 April 1994

[rug]

44. "How about this for a headline? French fries."

James French, executed in Oklahoma by the electric chair, 1966.

The last person to suffer the death penalty before the Supreme Court held it unconstitutional in Furman v Georgia.

[fishnfla]

45. My brother this past Jan

"Greg, you are so full of shit"

RIP bro

[greatauntoftriplets]

46. For real...on a tombstone in Key West...

"I told you I was sick!!"

[deutsey]

47. "The horror...the horror..." Kurtz in Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

[swag]

48. Aldous Huxley (written on a notepad to his wife, who complied with his request)

"LSD, 100 µg, i.m."

I don't think that's the entire quote, but I don't have my reference work handy. I believe after he wrote that, he also wrote, "Try some!"