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