Famous Last Words:
- Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose. – Queen Marie Antoinette after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine.
- I can’t sleep. – J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan
- I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. – Humphrey Bogart
- I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct. – Dominique Bouhours, famous French grammarian
- I live! – Roman Emperor, as he was being murdered by his own soldiers.
- Dammit…Don’t you dare ask God to help me. – Joan Crawford to her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
- I am perplexed. Satan Get Out. – Aleister Crowley – famous occultist.
- Now why did I do that? – General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.
- Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’! – James French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution
- Bugger Bognor. – King George V whose physician had suggested that he relax at his seaside palace in Bognor Regis.
- It’s stopped. – Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse
- LSD, 100 micrograms I.M. – Aldous Huxley (Author) to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.
- You have won, O Galilean. – Emperor Julian, having attempted to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire.
- No, you certainly can’t. – John F. Kennedy in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a nice welcome, Mr. President.
- I feel ill. Call the doctors. – Mao Zedong (Chairman of China)
- Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here. – Nostradamus
- Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around! – Carl Panzram, serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.
- Put out the bloody cigarette!! – Saki, to a fellow officer while in a trench during World War One, for fear the smoke would give away their positions. He was then shot by a German sniper who had heard the remark.
- Please don’t let me fall. – Mary Surratt, before being hanged for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. She was the first woman executed by the United States federal government.
- Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. – Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.