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I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be into a vault in less than two days after I am dead. Do you understand me? ["Yes," replied Tobias Lear, his secretary.] 'Tis well.
Who: George Washington, first President of the United States
I'm all right.
Who: H. G. Wells
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Who: Oscar Wilde
Variation: These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go.
Popular variation often found in "Famous Last Words"-lists : "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."
Notes: Mr. Wilde said this in the Left Bank hotel where he died on November 30 1900, the wallpaper has since been removed and the room re-furnished in the style of one of Mr. Wilde's London flats. This has sometimes been misquoted as "These curtains are killing me, one of us has got to go."
Can this last long?.
Who: William III of England, when his doctor told him that he was ill.
Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, ayez pitié de mon âme et de ce pauvre peuple.
Translation: My Lord, my Lord, have pity upon my soul and these poor people.
Who: William the Silent

Thank You!
Who: Bartleby shortly before having his head blown up by God's Voice in Dogma
Bang.
Who: Spike Spiegel, in Cowboy Bebop
It was... fun. Oh, my...
Who: Captain Kirk, in Star Trek: Generations
Strewth!
Who: Mr. Foster, in Monty Python's famous deaths sketch.
Rosebud...
Who: Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), in Citizen Kane (1941 film)
I'm all right... I just got the wind knocked out of me, that's all...
Who: Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore) "Saving Private Ryan"
You already have, Luke. You were right, you were right about me. Tell your sister...you...were right.
Who: Anakin Skywalker, a.k.a Darth Vader, in Return of the Jedi.
I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would've noticed another madman around here?
Who: Edmund Blackadder in episode 6- "Goodbyeee!" of Blackadder Goes Forth
If you knew that, you'd be as clever as me.
Who: Unnamed character moments before being shot in the Mathew Vaughn film, Layer Cake
I feel!... cold...
Who: Captain Barbossa Pirates of the Carribean
In a moment you will see what you have always been. I, too, will see what I have always been. We will be together in our understanding.
Who: Takashi in The Invisibles
My precious, my precious! O, my precious!
Who: Gollum, in The Lord of the Rings
I smell... bread.
Who: anonymous soldier, in MASH
I think.... I feel good about it.
Who: Marvin the Paranoid Android in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, after reading God's Final Message To His Creation
I won't become a memory.
Who: Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
What's that smell?
Who: Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Of course. It's time.
Who: Lady Edith Manning in The Invisibles
The horror! The horror!
Who: Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Remember what I said about seein a light when you die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing.
Who: Morgan Earp (Bill Paxton) in Tombstone
All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time to die.
Who: Roy (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner
The future... we have... no future...
Who: Azala in Chrono Trigger
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
Who: Hoban "Wash" Washburne in Serenity, before he was impaled by a large harpoon and killed.
"This time, Praetor, I shall be more thorough in killing you."
Who: The Cleric in The Codex Series Episode 20, right before Commander Anda Sofadee charged in with her Plasma sword and killed him.
I don't believe it! They're Retreating! We won!.
Who: A soldier on the Malta in Halo 2
Luke...there is another...Sky...walker...
Who: Yoda in Return of the Jedi.
Come on you can do better that that!
Who: Sirius Black from Harry Potter. Just before he fell behind the veil in the Department of Mysetries in Book 5.
Severus...please...
Who: Albus Dumbledore in book 6. To Severus Snape who then killed him.
Ramza... What did you get?
Who: Delita in Final Fantasy Tactics
After you guys beat me, I had nothing left... nothing more to lose. Then, I finally realized what it means to live... I guess I was too late.
Who: Kuja Tribal in Final Fantasy IX
There's only room for one Boss... and one Snake...
Who: The Boss in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
This is the first time I've ever used my power to help someone. It's strange... it feels... kind of... nice.
Who: Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid
Kiss the girls and make 'em cry for me, Ringo.
Who: Jolly Roger in The Invisibles
There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realised. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.
Who: Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator, after being poisoned and having defeated the Ceasar.
Freeeedom!!!
Who: William Wallace in Braveheart, after being heavily tortured before being executed.
Perfect. They are all perfect.
Who: Katsumoto in The Last Samurai, referring to his lifelong search for a perfect lotus bloom.
I might have been mistaken.
Who: Rochefort in The Musketeers, after beeing stabbed while he was sure to have won the fight.
I would have followed you, my brother. My captain. My king.
Who: Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring to Aragorn after being deadly wounded in battle.
I go to my fathers...in whose mighty company... I shall not now feel ashamed
Who: Theoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, after being deadly wounded in battle.
Leeroy Jenkins!
Who: Leeroy Jenkins in the World of Warcraft, right before storming a cave full of hideous monsters.

A – M
John Adams, US president:
"Thomas Jefferson still lives." (Jefferson had actually died earlier that day).
John Quincy Adams, US president:
"This is the last of earth! I am content."
Joseph Addison, writer:
"See in what peace a Christian can die."
Louisa Alcott, author:
"Is it not meningitis?"
Ethan Allen, American revolutionary general, upon being told "the angels are waiting for you":
"Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well - let 'em wait."
George Appel, a gangster, about to be executed by electrocution:
"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked apple."
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, as she stepped on the toe of her executioner:
"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur." ("Forgive me, sir")
Jeanne d'Arc:
"Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!"
John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman and millionaire who died on the Titanic:
"The ladies have to go first...Come on, get in the lifeboat, to please me...Goodbye, dearie, I shall see you again later."
J. M. Barrie, writer:
"I can't sleep."
John Barrymore, actor:
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." or "You heard me, Mike."
Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist:
"Now comes the mystery."
Ludwig van Beethoven, 18th century German composer, having just been given Last Rites:
"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
Alexander Graham Bell:
"So little done, so much to do."
Simón Bolívar, to his physician:
"The three biggest fools in the world have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and... me."
Napoleon Bonaparte:
"France! Army! Head of the Army! Josephine..."
William Bonney, AKA Billy the Kid:
"Quien es?" ("Who is it?")
Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian:
"I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct."
Lenny Bruce, stand-up comic and satirist:
"Does anybody know where I can get some shit?" (meaning some heroin)
Buddha:
"And now, O priests, I take my leave of you; all the elements of being are transitory. Work out your salvation with diligence."
Lord Byron:
"Now I shall go to sleep. Good night."
Julius Caesar, Roman dictator:
"και συ τεκνον;" (Kai su, teknon?, Greek for "Even you, my son?")—popularized as "Et tu, Brute?" ("Even you, Brutus?") by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor, stabbed to death by his own guards (as reported by Tacitus):
"I am still alive!"
Donald Campbell, during the attempt on the world water speed record, as Bluebird flipped out of the water and crashed:
"The water's dark green and I can't see a bloody thing. Hallo the bow is up. I'm going. I'm on my back. I'm gone."
Anton Chekhov, Russian author and medic, sipped a glass of Champaigne and said:
"Ich sterbe" ("I am dying", in German).
Charlie Chaplin, actor, after a priest said "May the Lord have mercy on your soul":
"Why not? After all, it belongs to him."
Charles II, King of England
"Let not poor Nelly [ Nell Gwynne ] starve" or "I am sorry to be such an unconscionably long time a-dying".
Winston Churchill:
"Everything is so boring."
Jesus Christ:
"It is finished." per John 19:30
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!" per Mark 15:34-5 and Matthew 27:46
"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." per Luke 23:46
Kurt Cobain, quoting Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)", found in Cobain's suicide note.
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
Auguste Comte, philosopher:
"What an irreparable loss!"
Joan Crawford:
"Damn it! Don't you dare ask God to help me!"1
General George Armstrong Custer (attributed):
"Hurrah, boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home to our station."
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, inventor:
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Emily Dickinson, 19th century poet:
"I must go in, the fog is rising."
Joe DiMaggio, baseball player, American legend:
"I'll finally get to see Marilyn."
R. Budd Dwyer, speaking to panicked journalists about the gun he was about to put in his mouth:
"This thing will hurt someone."
Amelia Earhart,
"We are running north and south."
Thomas Edison, inventor:
"It's very beautiful over there."
George Eastman:
"My work is done, why wait?"
Elizabeth I, Queen of England:
"All my possessions for a moment of time."
Leonhard Euler, mathematician:
"I die."
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.:
"Never felt better."
Benjamin Franklin, when asked to roll over on the bed so he could breathe more easily:
"A dying man can do nothing easy."
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, whose assassination set off the First World War:
"It is nothing. It is nothing."
James French, sentenced to death in the electric chair:
"How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries'."
Sigmund Freud:
"My dear Schur, you remember our first talk. You promised to help me when I could no longer carry on. It is only torture now, and it has no longer any sense."
William J. Fetterman:
"Give me 80 men and I'll ride through the whole Sioux nation."
Richard Feynman, Physicist:
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
W.C. Fields:
"God damn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta."
Millard Fillmore, thirteenth U.S. president, upon being fed some soup on his deathbed:
"The nourishment is palatable."
Adolf Fischer, German anarchist, before his hanging:
"This is the happiest moment of my life."
James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy during World War II (quoted from Ajax by Sophocles, found in Forrestal's suicide note):
"Frenzy hath seized thy dearest son,
Who from thy shores in glory came
The first in valor and in fame;
Thy deeds that he hath done
Seem hostile all to hostile eyes...
Better to die, and sleep
The never waking sleep, than linger on,
And dare to live, when the soul's life is gone."
Charles Frohman:
"Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure."
John Wayne Gacy: serial killer;
After being led into the death chamber, Gacy was asked if he had any last words, to which he replied: "Yeah; Kiss my ass."
Mahatma Gandhi, India's "Father of the Nation" - after being shot. These words are also inscribed on Gandhi's memorial, the Raj Ghat.
"Hai Ram!" (or) "Oh! Lord(Rama)"
George V, King of the United Kingdom:
"Bugger Bognor!" or "How is the Empire?"
Gary Gilmore, executed by firing squad:
"Let's do it."1
George Gipp, American football player, according to his former coach, Knute Rockne, who went on to use these words at halftime to inspire the Notre Dame team to victory in a game against Army in 1928:
"Rock, sometime, when the team is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got, and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock, but I'll know about it, and I'll be happy." (That Gipp actually said this is in dispute; that Rockne told it to his players is not. Notre Dame came from behind to win the game, 12-6.)
Jimmy Glass, murderer, while sitting in the Louisiana electric chair:
"I'd rather be fishing."1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 19th century poet, novelist, playwright, scientist and thinker:
"Light! More light!" (Disputed)
Irwin Goodman, Finnish musician:
"Don't get nervous now."
Barbara Graham, convicted murderess to executioner Joe Feretti who was in charge of her 1955 gas-chamber execution. "Now take a deep breath and it won't bother you", Feretti said. To which Barbara retorted:
"How in the hell would you know?"
Joseph Henry Green, British surgeon, after checking his own pulse:
"Stopped."
Gregory VII:
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore I die in exile."
Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader:
"Just shoot, you coward. You are only killing a man!"
Nathan Hale, before being executed:
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."2
Heinrich Heine, German poet (died of syphilis):
"God will forgive me--that's his job."1
Joe Hill, labour union activist, executed by firing squad:
"Don't mourn for me. Organize!" (It has also been said that, as the firing squad was preparing, and their commander yelled, "Ready... aim..." Hill said, "Fire," as if in one last act of rebellion, to show them that he wasn't afraid.)
Hamlet, fictional Prince of Denmark:
"The rest is silence."
Robert Alton Harris, put to death in the gas chamber:
"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper."
George Harrison:
A quote from Paramahansa Yogananda: "Everything can wait, but the search for God cannot wait." He then added, "and love one another."
Doc Holliday: gambler, gunfighter.
"This is funny."
Georg Hegel: "Only one man ever understood me. And he really didn't understand me."
Bill Hicks, comedian. He lived for another two weeks after speaking these words, but never spoke again.
"I've said all I have to say."
Robert Karl Hicks, executed by lethal injection in Georgia:
"Come get me."
Thomas Hobbes:
"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."
Victor Hugo, French writer:
"I see a black light."
Jan Hus, Czech reformist, burnt on stake:
"O sancta simplicitas!" (trans. "O, holy simplicity!")
Henrik Ibsen, after his housekeeper told a guest he was feeling better:
"On the contrary!"
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general:
"Let us cross the river and rest in the shade of the trees."
Milton Jacobs, Chemist, Geologist, Electrical Engineer, layman Physicist, Sailor for the US Navy and World War II veteran, spoken before slipping into a dementia induced coma:
"I used to know a lot, now I don't know nuttin'".
Alfred Jarry, French playwrite and absurdist:
"I am dying, please...bring me a toothpick."3
Thomas Jefferson, third US president:
"Is it the Fourth?"
David A. Johnston, US volcanologist:
"Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" reporting on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Al Jolson:
"This is it! I'm going. I'm going."
James Joyce:
"Does no one understand it?"
Charles Foster Kane, fictional newspaper tycoon:
"Rosebud."
Ned Kelly (before being hanged):
"Such is life."
John F. Kennedy, told by Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connally of Texas, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you today."
"That's obvious." (Some say that, after being shot, Kennedy said, "My God, I'm hit!" but this is disputed.)
Robert F. Kennedy, after being shot:
"Is it bad?" Then, "Please, don't. Don't lift me."
Often his last sentence of his last speech, "Now it's on to Chicago and let's win there," has been interpreted as his last words. They were certainly the last words spoken before his shooting.
Genghis Khan:
"Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep or keen for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death."
Sam Kinison: comedian;
"Oh, ok. Ok."
Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer:
"I am alive!"
James Lawrence:
"Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks." His last words are often simply shortened to "Don't give up the ship."
Timothy Leary:
"Why not? Why not? Why not?"
Robert E. Lee:
"Strike the tent." (disputed)
John Lennon, after being shot and in response to a policeman asking "How do you feel?":
"I'm in pain."
Marc Lépine, before putting a gun below his face and firing:
"Oh, shit."
Otto Lilienthal, dying the day after he crashed with one of his gliders:
"Sacrifices must be made!"
Abraham Lincoln, US president, when his wife Mary asked what the lady sitting next to them at Ford's Theater would say if she saw them holding hands:
"She won't think anything of it."
Richard Loeb, murderer, after being slashed 56 times with a razor in a prison shower room:
"I think I'm going to make it."
Louis XIV, King of France:
"Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?"
James Madison, US president, after his niece asked him at dinner if anything was wrong:
"Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear."
Karl Marx, on his deathbed, to his housekeeper who had just asked if he had any last words:
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!"
Major Thomas McGuire, American fighter ace, killed in action:
"Save your auxiliary tanks"
Antonio Mancini, a gangster when standing on the gallows trap door:
"Cheerio!"
Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter ace:
"I have engine problem. I have to jump."
Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary, seconds before Charlotte Corday stabbed him to death:
"They shall all be guillotined."
Edgar Lee Masters, American author:
"Here, world, I hand you like an orange to a child. I can no more with you; do what you will."
Auvo Maunula, Finnish fighter ace, to Sgt. Ringbom, after he had warned about taking his plane, assumed to be in an unflyable condition:
"Is the sergeant going to teach me how to fly?"
Louis B. Mayer, film producer:
"Nothing matters. Nothing matters."
Pedro Medina, while being executed on a malfunctioning electric chair:
"I am still innocent."
Lauren Miller, Actress,
"Life is like..." And then she died.
Breaker Morant, on facing a firing squad:
"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!"
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, leader of the Monmouth Rebellion, to headsman:
"Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell."
Sir Thomas More, English philosopher:
"This hath not offended the king."
Benito Mussolini, before being executed by Italian partisans:
"Shoot me in the chest!"

N – Z
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson:
"Thank God I have done my duty"4
Nero, Roman emperor:
Hoc aest fides, "This is fidelity." (to an approaching soldier whom the dying Nero thought had come to rescue him)
Lawrence Oates, British expeditioneer:
"I am just going outside and may be some time."
Johan van Oldenbarneveld - Dutch statesman
"Make it short!" (to his executioner)
O'Neill, William "Buckey" - in Spanish-American war:
"Sergeant, the Spanish bullet isn't made that will kill me."
Sir Walter Raleigh, to headsman:
"Strike, man, strike!"
Lee Harvey Oswald, John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assumed murderer:
"I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you."
Alferd Packer: cannibal, serial killer;
"I am not guilty of the charge."
Pablo Picasso:
"Drink to me!"
William Pitt, British Prime Minister:
"Oh, my country! How I leave my country!"
Edgar Allan Poe:
"Lord help my poor soul." Or, "It's all over now; write Eddy is no more." (referring to his tombstone)
William Sidney Porter (O. Henry):
"Don't turn down the light. I'm afraid to go home in the dark."
Francois Rabelais:
"Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out."
Cecil Rhodes
"So little done; so much to do."
Oscar Romero, Archbishop of El Salvador:
"May God have mercy on the assassins." (After being shot while administering the Eucharist.)
Madame Roland:
"Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!"
Theodore Roosevelt, US president, to his butler:
"James, please put out the light."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, US president:
"I have a terrific headache." (Sometimes printed as, "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.")
Pope John Paul II:
"Let me go to the house of the father [ Lord ]. Amen."
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister:
"My last wish is that Germany realize its entity and that an understanding be reached between East and West. I wish peace to the world."
Romeo Montague, fictional character of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
"O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
Babe Ruth, baseball player:
"I'm going over the valley."
St. Lorenzo Ruiz, first Filipino saint, as he is tortured to death:
"Ama namin, sumasalangit ka, sambahin ang ngalan Mo, mapasaamin ang kaharian Mo, sundin ang loob Mo dito sa lupa para nang sa langit..." trans. "Our father who art in heaven, holy be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven..."
Arthur Flegenheimer ("Dutch Schultz") while dying of a gunshot wound:
"A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim... French Canadian bean soup... The bears are in trouble and the sidewalks are in trouble..."
Robert Scott, British expeditioneer (on his diary):
"Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for. R. Scott"
John Sedgwick, Union Army General, was observing the lines at the Battle of Chickamauga when his men warned him to be wary of Confederate sharpshooters:
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
Sitting Bull, Sioux chieftain:
"I am not going. Do with me what you like. I am not going. Come on! Come on! Take action! Let's go!"
Socrates, Greek philosopher, executed:
"Crito, I owe a rooster to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"
Michael J. Smith, pilot of space shuttle Challenger's last, ill-fated STS-51-L mission:
"Uh-oh."
Josef Stalin:
"Where is the left foot sock? Is it under the chair?"
Arthur Thistlewood, before his execution:
"I shall soon know the grand secret."
Dylan Thomas:
"I've had 18 full whiskeys; I think that's a record."
Hunter S. Thompson, in a suicide note titled "Football Season Is Over":
"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
Henry David Thoreau:
"Moose...Indian"1
Joseph Trumpeldor: "Never mind, it is good to die for our country."
Karla Faye Tucker, executed by lethal injection:
"I am going to be face to face with Jesus now... I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you."
Vincent Van Gogh:
"La tristesse durera toujours." (trans: "sadness shall last forever")
Brandon Vedas (typed to an IRC room watching him on his webcam minutes before dying from drug overdose):
"I told u I was hardcore."
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio:
"All right, then, I'll say it, Dante makes me sick."
Vespasian:
"Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god."
Pancho Villa:
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
George Washington, statesman, American president:
"I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand?... 'Tis well."
Daniel Webster:
"I still live."
H. G. Wells:
"Go away. I'm all right."
Oscar Wilde, writer:
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go."1
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, linguist:
"Tell them I've had a wonderful life."
James Wolfe, general:
"What, do they run already? Then I die happy."
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England:
"If I had served my God half so well as I have served my King, He would not have abandoned me now."
Yi Sun-sin, Korean Admiral during the Joseon Dynasty, after being shot during battle:
"Keep the drums beating... do not let anybody know I've died."
Osamu Tezuka:
"I'm begging you, let me work!"
Mishima Yukio, Japanese novelist and playwright:
"Human life is limited; but I would like to live forever."
Giuseppe Zangara:
"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! Get to hell out of here, you son of a bitch [spoken to the attending minister]... I go sit down all by myself... Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere!... Lousy capitalists! No picture! Capitalists! No one here to take my picture. All capitalists lousy bunch of crooks. Go ahead. Pusha da button!"
Zip the Pinhead, American circus freak:
"Well, we fooled 'em a long time, didn't we?" (seeming to admit that he was not really an African tribesman, but a guy from Harlem with an odd shapped head).1
Jan Zizka, Hussite general:
"Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause so I can frighten God's enemies even when I'm dead."