25.6.13

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

Dammit…Don’t you dare ask God to help me. - Joan Crawford to her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.

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

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.

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.

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.


Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do- Oscar Wilde, dying in an unfortunately papered hotel room

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