Queen Elizabeth I of England
"All my possessions for a moment of time."
W.C. Fields
"God damn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta."
Nathan Hale
(American Revolutionary)
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Alexander Hamilton (US Founding Father)
"This is a mortal wound, doctor."
Conrad N. Hilton (Founder of the Hilton Hotel chain.)
"Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub."
John Henry (Doc) Holliday
"This is funny."
Saint Joan of Arc
"Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!"
Saint Lawrence (Roman Martyr)
"Turn me. I am roasted on one side."
Karl Marx
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!" (To his housekeeper, when asked if he wanted his last words recorded.)
Pablo Picasso
"Drink to me!"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Lord help my poor soul."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd US President)
"I have a terrific headache."
Babe Ruth
"I'm going over the valley."
Socrates
"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?"
Count Leo Tolstoy (Russian Writer)
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
General George Washington (First US President)
"'Tis well."
Herbert George (H.G.) Wells (Famous Writer)
"Go away. I'm all right."
Louisa M. Alcott
"Is it not meningitis?"
John Barrymore (Actor)
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
Humphrey Bogart(Actor)
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
Julius Gaius Caesar
"Et tu, Brute?" ("You too, Brutus?")
Frederic Chopin (Composer)
"The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
Steven Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th US President)
"I have tried so hard to do right."
Harold Lillis "Bing" Crosby
"It was a great game." (After his last round of golf)
Charles Darwin
"I am not the least afraid to die."
James Dean
"That guy's got to stop... He'll see us." (Before being killed in a car accident.)
Diana, Princess of Wales
"My God. What's happened?"
Emily Dickinson
"... the fog is rising"
Thomas Edison
"It's very beautiful over there." (Upon gazing out of his bedroom window.)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"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"