Famous Last Words
- “I’ve never felt better” ~Douglas Fairbanks
- “It’s very beautiful over there” ~Thomas Edison
- “I wish I had drunk more champagne” ~John Maynard Keynes
- “You will show my head to the people-it is worth seeing” ~Georges Jacques Danton
- “Tell my mother I died for my country. I thought I did it for the best. Useless, useless…” ~John Wilkes Booth
- “Am I dying or is this my birthday?” ~Lady Astor
- “How were the circus receipts in Madison Square Garden?” ~P.T. Barnum
- “My mother did it” ~Arnold Rothstein
- “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist—.” ~General John Sedgwick
- “If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now.” ~Emily Jane Bronte
- “Wait a minute…” ~Pope Alexander VI
- “Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.” ~George Appel, executed by electric chair in 1928.
- “I can’t sleep.” ~J.M. Barrie, author of works including Peter Pan.
- “I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili.” ~Kit Carson, American Frontiersman. Note: His final words have also been reported as “Adios, com padres.”
- “Dammit…Don’t you dare ask God to help me.” ~Joan Crawford, this comment was directed towards her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
- “I am in a duel to death with this wallpaper. One of us has to go.” ~Oscar Wilde
- “I’ve had a helluva lot of fun, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.” ~Errrol Flynn
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