Wednesday, 28 November 2007

• Famous Last Words

  I found this very interesting list of famous last words on carymc's blog on onmylist.com.  Quite interesting to see what some of the most famous celebrities in history had to say with their very last breaths. 
  

   

  Princess Diana

   

  "My God, what happened?"

  
  

   

  
  

  Che Guevara

   

  "Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man."

  
  

   

  
  

  Charlie Chaplin

   

  "Why not? It belongs to him." - in reply to the priest at his deathbed who said, "May the Lord have mercy on your soul."

  
  

  
  

  Dylan Thomas

   

  "I've had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's a record."

  
  

   

  Chris Farley

   

  "Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me."

  
  

   

  George Harrison

   

  "Love one another."

  
  

   

  Winston Churchill

   

  "I'm bored with it all."

  
  

   

  Joan Crawford

   

  "Damn it, don't you dare ask God to help me!" - to her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.

  
  

   

  Malcolm X

   

  "Let's cool it, brothers." - to his three assassins as they approached him

  
  

   

  John Wilkes Booth

   

  "Tell mother I died for my country. Useless... useless."

  
  

   

  Lenny Bruce

   

  "Do you know where I can get any shit?"

  
  

   

  John Jacob Astor, IV

   

  "The ladies have to go first. Get in the lifeboat, to please me. Goodbye, dearie. I'll see you later." - millionaire and Titanic casualty Astor, to his wife.

  
  

   

  Timothy Leary

   

  "Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah."

  
  

   

  Kurt Cobain

   

  "Please keep going Courtney, for Frances. Her life will be so much happier without me. I love you. I love you." - from his suicide note

  
  

   

  W.C. Fields

   

  "God damn the whole friggin' world and everyone in it but you, Carlotta." - to his mistress

  
  

   

  James Dean

   

  "That guy's got to see us. He'll stop." - just before his fatal car accident

  
  

   

  P.T. Barnum

   

  "How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?"

  
  

   

  Marie Antoinette

   

  "Pardonnez moi, monseiur." - to her executioner, after accidentally stepping on his foot.

  
  

   

  James French

   

  "How's this for a headline: 'French fries'" - convicted murderer French, just before being executed in the electric chair.

  
  

   

  John F. Kennedy

   

  "That's obvious." - in reply to Texas governor John Connally's wife, who had said to him, "Mr. President, you cannot say that Dallas doesn't love you."

  
  

   

  Barry White

   

  "Leave me alone, I'm fine."

  
  

   

  Sigmund Freud

   

  "This is absurd."

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