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Ja, maar niet te veel.
Translation: Yes, but not too many
Who: Gerrit Achterberg Dutch poet.
Note: Achterberg had just parked his car, when his wife asked: "Shall I bake some potatoes?" After answering the question he suffered a fatal heart attack.
[Asked by Mrs. Clark if he knew what day it was.]
"Oh, yes; it is the glorious Fourth of July. It is a great day. It is a good day. God bless it. God bless you all. [He then lapsed into unconsciousness. He awakened later, and mumbled] Thomas Jefferson..."
Who: John Adams
John Adams died on July 4, 1826. He is often quoted as having said "Thomas Jefferson still survives." with some depictions indicating he might have not expressed the entire statement before dying, ie: "Thomas Jefferson… still survi—", but some research indicates that only the words "Thomas Jefferson" were clearly intelligible among his last.
This is the last of Earth! I am content..
Who: John Quincy Adams, US President, February 21, 1848.
Is it not meningitis?
Who: Louisa May Alcott
To the strongest!
Who: Alexander the Great
In response to his generals asking the heirless Alexander which one of them would get control of the empire.
When asked on his deathbed who was to succeed him, his voice may have been indistinct. Alexander may have said "Krateros" (the name of one of his generals), but he was not around, and the others may have chosen to hear "Kratistos- the strongest".
Wait a minute...
Who: Pope Alexander VI
mè mou tous kuklous taratte (Μη μου τους κύκλους τάραττε)
Translation: Don't disturb my circles!
Who: Archimedes
In response to a Roman soldier who was forcing him to report to the roman general after the capture of Syracuse, while he was busy sitting on the ground proving geometry theorems. The soldier killed him.
What time is it ?
Who: Ataturk to his doctors on November 10th 1938, at 9:05 am

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How were the receipts today at Madison Square garden?
Who: P.T Barnum, Circus Entrepreneur
I can't sleep.
Who: J.M Barrie
Now I can cross the Shifting Sands.
Who: L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz
Note: Baum was referring to the Shifting Sands, the impassable desert surrounding the Land of Oz.
Applaud, my friends, the comedy is finished.
Who: Ludwig van Beethoven
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.; the formula traditionally used to end a performance of commedia del arte.
Note: Some sources claim Beethoven's last words were "I shall hear in Heaven".
Passi-ho bé, senyor Bernades (Catalan)
Translation: Goodbye, Mr. Bernades
Who: Josep Bernades
Dêem-me café, vou escrever!
Translation: Give me coffee, I´m going to write
Who: Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet
¿Quién es? ¿Quién es? (Spanish)
Translation: Who is it? Who is it?
Who: Billy the Kid
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
Who: Humphrey Bogart
France, armée, Joséphine...
Translation: France, army, Josephine
Who: Napoleon Bonaparte
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.
Who: Lord George Byron

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Acta est fabula.
Translation: The story has been completed.
Who: Caesar Augustus
Attributed
This is the phrase said at the end of Roman plays.
Et tu, Brute?
Translation: And you, Brutus? / "You, too, Brutus?"
Who: Julius Caesar
Attributed to him by Shakespeare's famous play; his real last words are unknown. Brutus, one of Caesar's assassins, was his adopted son. According to Suetonius, Caesar's last words were Ista quidem vis est! ("This is violence!").
Vivo.
Translation: I live!
Who: Caligula, Roman Emperor
Take a step forward lads - it'll be easier that way.
Who: Erskine Childers, last words, to his firing squad, Irish Civil War 1922
The Earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Who: Frederic Chopin, Polish composer and pianist.
I'm bored with it all.
Who: Winston Churchill, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later.
I have tried so hard to do right.
Who: Grover Cleveland, US President, died 1908
Thank God. I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.
Who: Del Close, improvisor, teacher and comedian, died 1999
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying.
Who: Jean Cocteau
Good morning, Robert.
Who: Calvin Coolidge, to a carpenter working on his home
More weight.
Who: Giles Corey, as he was being interrogated during the Salem Witch Trials. Massive stones were piled upon his chest in an effort to get him to confess, though he eventually crushed to death, admitting nothing.
Dammit . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.
Who: Joan Crawford. This comment was directed towards her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
That was a great game of golf, fellers.
Who: Bing Crosby. He was playing the whole 18 holes of golf (even when his doctor said to only do nine). 20 minutes after the game, he died of a heart attack.
Why not? After all, it belongs to Him!
Who: Charlie Chaplin. He said this when one of the people standing near him spoke to him, "May God Bless Your Soul".
In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide.
Who: 30-year-old anchorwoman Christine Chubbuck, who, on July 15, 1974, during technical difficulties during a broadcast, said these words on-air before producing a revolver and shooting herself in the head. She was pronounced dead in hospital fourteen hours later.

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I am not the least afraid to die.
Who: Charles Darwin
That guy's got to stop... He'll see us.
Who: James Dean
Words said before dying in a car accident.
But how the devil do you think this could harm me?.
Who: Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist, upon being warned by his wife not to eat too much.
Little Cousins, Called back.
Who: Emily Dickinson. Letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, May 1886.
Source: Johnson, Thomas H., ed. Emily Dickinson Selected Letters. Cambridge: Belknap, 1971.
Get these fucking nuns away from me.
Who: Norman Douglas
Shakespeare, I come!
Who: Theodore Dreiser. 28 December 1945
"Farewell my friends, I go to glory!"
Who: Isadora Duncann
Note: Said before she got in her car to go home. Her scarf got caught around the wheel and strangled her instantly as the driver took off.
Stay back, this could hurt someone.
Who: R. Budd Dwyer, former treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as he brandished the handgun with which he shot himself in the head moments later.

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To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?
Who: George Eastman, Inventor (in his suicide note)
It's very beautiful over there.
Who: Thomas Edison
Words spoken as he stared outside of his bedroom window.
I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me.
Who: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Was ist mit mir geschehen?
Translation: What has happenend to me?
Who: Elisabeth of Austria

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Es ist gar nichts... es ist gar nichts...
Translation: It's nothing... it's nothing...
Who: Franz Ferdinand Archduke of Austria
Whispered to Count Harrach as the Archduke fell unconscious after being shot; he died shortly without ever regaining consciousness
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.
Who: Richard Feynman
The nourishment is palatable.
Who: Former US President Millard Fillmore
Notes: This was his response when his physician inquired about his food.
Hey, Jimmie! The Chimney Sweeps. Talk to the Sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! please come help me up, Henny. Max come over here... French Canadian bean soup...I want to pay, let them leave me alone...
Who: Arthur Flegenheimer, mobster, also known as Dutch Schultz.
Notes: Flegenheimer had been fatally shot by another mobster and taken to the hospital. As police officers interrogated him on his deathbed, he gave them long and frequently incoherent answers before finally dying.
How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries'.
Who: James French.
Notes: French was sentenced to the electric chair.
This is absurd! This is absurd! [english translation]
Who: Sigmund Freud

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Hey Ram!...
Translation: This is an exclamation to Ram (or Rama), who in Hindu traditions is one of the manifestations of Vishnu. Hey Ram means "O! lord Ram!". (This is invoking the name of Rama, rather than an expression of surprise)
Who: Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.
[To his chief of staff, David G. Swaim] Oh Swaim, there is a pain here. Swaim, can't you stop this? Oh, oh, Swaim!
Who: James Abram Garfield, American President.
I feel pain here.
Who: Charles de Gaulle, French leader.
Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
Who: Gautama Buddha
Bugger Bognor.
Who: King George V of the United Kingdom
Mehr Licht.
Translation: More light.
Who: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is also reported that "Come my little one, and give me your hand." were the last words he declared to his daughter Ottilie.
Bakayaro! Bakayaro!
Translation: Stupid Bastards! Stupid Bastards!
Who: Admiral Aritomo Goto's last words to his staff, October 11, 1942
Mehr nicht mehr.
Translation: More not more.
Who: D. Granosalis
Water.
Who: Ulysses S. Grant
It's stopped.
Who: Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse.
I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.
Who: Che Guevara. Variants :
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
"Know this now, you are killing a man.
These reportedly were his last words, spoken to Sergeant Jaime Terán, who in different accounts had either volunteered to be his executioner, or been selected by lot. Because of the many different reports that have arisen, much confusion and uncertainty exists about his actual last words. His last words to Colonel Arnaldo Saucedo Parada, head of intelligence of the Eighth Division who delivered the official report on Che's final moments were reported as: "I knew you were going to shoot me; I should never have been taken alive. Tell Fidel that this failure does not mean the end of the revolution, that it will triumph elsewhere. Tell Aleida to forget this, remarry and be happy, and keep the children studying. Ask the soldiers to aim well." Some also report his final words as those he reportedly declared when he surrendered: "Don't shoot, I am Che Guevara and I am worth more to you alive than dead." At one point early in the confusions General Ovando, Chief of Bolivian Armed Forces, declared that he had died in battle, and that just before he dying he had declared: "I am Che Guevara and I have failed" these are sometimes accepted as his last words, though subsequent reports have generally discredited that initial account.
Summary of various accounts of Che Guevara's Death at George Washington University
Apparently, this news is meant to mislead us.
These are actually his last written words: They are the last paragraph of Che's last writing, "Bolivian Diary", which is the log Che kept during the Bolivian operations. Che is referring to information that he had about the ambush that the Bolivian army had prepared, and during which Che was arrested.

H
Southerly gales, squalls, lee rail under water, wet bunks, hard tack, bully beef, wish you were here--instead of me!
Who: Richard Halliburton, last known communication from the Chinese junk Sea Dragon at sea, March 23 1939
This is a mortal wound, doctor.
Who: Alexander Hamilton
That's good. Read some more.
Who: Warren G. Harding, to his wife, who was reading him flattering newspaper accounts.
I know that I am going where Lucy is.
Who: Rutherford B. Hayes, speaking of his late wife
Turn up the lights— I don't want to go home in the dark.
Who: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), June 5, 1910
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.
Who: Henry VIII
Ich bin Heinrich Himmler.
Translation: I am Heinrich Himmler.
Who: Heinrich Himmler
This is funny.
Who: Doc Holliday
I'm tired of fighting.
Who: Harry Houdini
I see black light.
Who: Victor Hugo
When the music's over, turn off the lights.
Who: Adolf Hitler, before his suicide in 1945.

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Tvert imot!
Translation: On the contrary!
Who: Henrik Ibsen
Notes: This was his response to a nurse who said she thought he looked better than usual.

J
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
Who: General Stonewall Jackson
"Is it the Fourth?" [Doctor Robley Dunglison: "It soon will be."] "I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country."
Who: Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson died on July 4, 1826. This was the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence, which was written mostly by Thomas Jefferson.
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
Who: Jesus of Nazareth. Last words according to Luke 23:46 : "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost." (KJV)
It is finished.
Last words according to John 19:30 : "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." (KJV)
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani? (God, God, why have you forsaken me?)
The last words (among very few) that are preserved of the Aramaic which Jesus spoke. (Mark 15:34 & Matthew 27:46)
I am ready to go to the father's house.(In Polish)
Who: Pope John Paul II
Never by God will that be that a King of Bohemia flees from the battle.
Who: John the Blind of Luxemburg
Send Mike immediately!
Who: Lyndon Johnson, to a Secret Service agent over an in-house telephone

K
Such is life.
Who: Ned Kelly
That's very obvious. [Spoken in response to Mrs. Connolly's comment, "Mr. President, you can't say that Dallas doesn't love you."].
Who: John F. Kennedy
I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast!
Who: "Black Jack" Ketchum, notorious train robber, after springing up the gallows step to his execution; the rope was too short, and his head was pulled off by the noose.
I should have drunk more Champagne.
Who: John-Maynard Keynes
Minä elän.
Translation: I live.
Who: Aleksis Kivi

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"I wish I was skiing." [Nurse: "Oh, Mr. Laurel, do you ski?"] "No, but I'd rather be skiing than doing what I'm doing."
Who: Stan Laurel, before dying of a heart attack
Beautiful.
Who: Timothy Leary He also is known to have repeatedly said "Why Not" with various inflections prior to this, and these are often reported as his final words.
Strike the tent.
Who: Robert E. Lee
I think I'm going to make it!
Who: Richard Loeb, half of the famous murderers Leopold and Loeb; said after being slashed ninety times with a razor by a fellow inmate
"I'm shot."
Who: John Lennon, after being shot by Mark David Chapman in front of Lennon's New York apartment building.
Allah, save this country! Pakistan zindabad!
Who Liaquat Ali Khan , first Prime Minister of Pakistan, spoke to the nation after being shot.
Translation: "Pakistan zindabad" means "long live Pakistan."
Don't let me die, I have got so much to do.
Who: Huey Long, "The Kingfish", American politician, Governor of and Senator from Louisiana

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Boy, fetch my fiddle.
Who: Rob Roy MacGregor.
[Niece: "What is the matter, Uncle James?"] "Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down."
Who: James Madison
Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.
Pardon me, monsieur.
Who: Marie Antoinette, said to the executioner after accidentally stepping upon his foot as she was about to be guillotined. Variant translation: Monsieur, I beg your pardon.
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
Who: Karl Marx, asked by his housekeeper what his last words were
When I am dead, you will find Philip and Calais engraved on my heart.
Who: Mary I of England, related to her husband and the loss of Calais to France



It's all been rather lovely.
Who: John Le Mesurier, before slipping into a final coma.
It tastes bad.
Margaret Mitchell, upon being given a drink of orange juice while convalescing in a hospital
Shoot me in the chest!
Who: Benito Mussolini to his executioner.
But, but, Mr. Captain...
Who: Also attributed to Mussolini, just as he was shot by a partisan leader.
Well, this is certainly a pleasant surprise
Who: Andrew Mutton.
If you don't like it, you can just fuck off!
Who: Keith Moon, to his girlfriend, after requesting that she cook him steak for breakfast.
Don't make a mess of it - shoot straight you bastards.
Who: Harry 'Breaker' Morant
Note: Morant was courtmartialed and executed by the British, charged with killing Boer prisoners. To the end he claimed to have been following orders.
We all ge the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.
Who: Bat Masterson

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Thank God I have done my duty.
Who: British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson; These are among the very last words Nelson is recorded to have uttered, but his actual last words are lost with no definite record. That Nelson said "Kiss me, Hardy" in his last hours, after being mortally wounded is extensively documented in contemporary accounts, including that of people actually present. That they were not his actual last words is also extensively documented, though not as clearly in many popular accounts, and they have commonly been mistaken as being his last words. (for more on this see: Talk:Horatio Nelson)
Sero. Haec est fides.
Translation: It is too late. This is fidelity.
Who: Nero, Roman emperor.
Some accounts also have his last words as being "What an artist that dies in me"

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I am just going out. I may be some time.
Who: Lawrence Oates, on Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition, while suffering from frostbite and sheltering from a blizzard, Oates felt he was increasing his companions' chances of survival and he ended his life by leaving the tent.
¿Para qué? Estoy bien al nivel de los fusiles.
Translation: Why? I'm right at the height of the rifles
Who: Melchor Ocampo, Mexican politician, known for his anticlerical ideas
Ocampo was rounded up by conservative rebels and sentenced to death. He spoke these words after his executioner ordered him to kneel.
This isn't Hamlet, you know. It's not meant to go into the bloody ear.
Who: Lawrence Olivier supposedly said this when a nurse, attempting to moisten his lips, mis-aimed.

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I will see you tomorrow if God wills it.
Who: Pope John Paul I, an hour before he died of a heart attack.
Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!.
Who: Carl Panzram, serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.
I wasn't done.
Who: John (Jack) Whiteside Parsons, rocket scientist, occultist and self-proclaimed antichrist, after his injury in a lab explosion.
Drink to me!
Who: Pablo Picasso
Lord help my poor soul.
Who: Edgar Allan Poe
Me l'aspettavo.
Translation: I expected it to happen
Pino Puglisi, Italian priest shot by a Mafia assassin
Note: Pino Puglisi was reported to have smiled to his killer.

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Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être.
Translation: I am off in search of the great perhaps.
Who: François Rabelais
Variant Translation: I am off in search of a great may-be.
Beati qui in domino moriuntur
Translation: Blessed are those who die in the Lord or Blessed are those who die wearing a cloak.
Note: Rabelais is also attributed these last words. He is said to have stated the quote, which is a Latin pun, after wrapping himself in his domino, a Spanish hooded cloak
I have a terrible headache.
Who: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage
Note: According to Conrad Black in his biography Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, page 1110, FDR was sitting for a portrait when he put his left hand to the back of his head and said: "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head." He then was carried to his bed by several people, as they were doing this "he was understood by Laura Delano to say, only semiconsciously, 'Be careful.' These were his last words.
Please put out the light.
Who: Theodore Roosevelt (January 6, 1919)
Me mudda did it.
Who: Arnold Rothstein, a.k.a. Mr. Big, when asked who shot him

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Put out the bloody cigarette!!
Who: Saki
Note: Last words before he was shot by a sniper.
For God's sake look after our people.
Who: Robert Falcon Scott.
Note: These were the last words he wrote in his diary, before he froze to death.
They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
These were among the final words of General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the U.S. Civil War, who was hit by sniper fire a few minutes after saying them, at the battle of Spotsylvania, on May 9, 1864. They are often portrayed as if they were his absolute final statement, the sentence often being presented as if he did not even finish it, and altered into the form: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...". Though this may be a slightly more striking version of events, it simply is not true. Apparently his last words were "All right, my man; go to your place," in response to a soldier telling him that he preferred to duck when being shot at, even from a great distance. - (External link: Death of General John Sedgwick)
Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
Who: George Bernard Shaw
Note: Said on his death bed.
Put me back on the bloody bike.
Who: Tom Simpson
Note: Tom Simpson was a cyclist who died on the Mont Ventoux, probably because of a combination of amphetamines, alcohol and the heat.
Oh Lord, my God!
Who: Joseph Smith, Jr. crying out while being shot by a mob inside his room. Some assert Smith's cry was a Masonic distress call for help as Smith and some of those within the mob which assassinated him were Masons.
My God, what's happened?
Who: Diana, Princess of Wales, 31 August 1997.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?
Who: Socrates
Note: Asclepius was a Greek god of healing (his shrine is on the side of the Acropolis). It seems to many that Socrates considered death to be a relief, and thus was thanking the god for the service of killing him.
There will be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!
Who August Spies, anarchist Haymarket martyr, prior to his hanging.
What is the answer? [no response] In that case, what is the question?
Who Gertrude Stein, spoken to Alice B. Toklas.
¡Carajo, un balazo!
Translation: Damn! A bullet!
Who: Antonio José de Sucre, after being shot while riding his horse in the jungle in Colombia on his way home. He was said to be a fine gentleman who had never cursed until that day. According to Ricardo Palma's "Tradiciones en Salsa Verde" (Carajo is a slang word for a man's sexual organ).

T
Die, my dear doctor, that's the last thing I shall do!
Who: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
Who: Mother Teresa (Sept 5, 1997)
Notes: Sister Nirmala Joshi recalled, "Just hours before her death, Mother Teresa spoke about the Little Flower, St. Therese. She has just been declared a ‘Doctor of the Church’ by Pope John Paul II. Her last words are: "Can you imagine, for doing little things with great love, the Church is making her a Doctor, like St. Augustine and the big St. Teresa! It is just like Jesus said in the Gospel to the one who was seated in the lowest place: "Friend, come up higher."
I just had eighteen straight scotches. I think that's the record...After thirty-nine years, this is all I've done.
Who: Dylan Thomas
Mihi vita immerenti eripitur; neque enim extat ullum meum factum paenitendum expecto dumtaxat uno.
Translation: I deserve not death, but I repent nothing else in my life except for one thing.
Who: Titus, Roman Emperor
Ein davar, tov lamut be'ad arzenu
Translation: Never mind; it is good to die for our country
Who: Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920)
Trumpeldor was a soldier and early pioneer/settler in Israel, he died defending the Tel-Hai settlment from an Arab attack.
Notes: Modern Israeli jocular rumor claims Trumpeldor's true last words were merely a juicy Russian curse.

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All right then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
Who: Lope de Vega, famous playwright, on being assured that the end was very near.
La Révolution est comme Saturne : elle dévore ses propres enfants.
Translation: The revolution, like Saturn, is devouring its own children.
Who: Pierre Vergniaud, French revolutionary
Vae, puto deus fio. (when he thought he was dying)
Translation: Dear me! I think I'm turning into a god...
Imperatorem stantem mori oportet. (when he was dying)
Translation: The Emperor has to die standing.
Who: Vespasian, Roman emperor
Source: Suetonius
Notes: And indeed, Vespasian was deified after his death
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Who: Francisco ("Pancho") Villa
Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
Who: Voltaire (attributed), when asked by a priest to renounce Satan

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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."