[CWS Calendar 2013] Day 25 - Famous People's Last Words
Task: Collect a list of 10 people’s last words.
"There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."
- Cicero (to the centurion send to assassinate him.)
"I want nothing but death."
- Jane Austen (answering her sister who had asked if she wanted something.)
"Go away. I'm all right."
- H.G. Wells (not noticing that anything was wrong with him.)
"No."
- Alexander Graham Bell (signed this, when his deaf wife whispered "Don't leave me.")
"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (to the priest at the side of his deathbed, who asked Voltaire to use the last few moments left to renounce Satan.)
"Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me."
- Joan Crawford (to her housekeeper who had started praying loudly.)
"That's not true! I'm gonna die in this suit?!"
- Friedrich Wilhelm I (König von Preußen)
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
- Humphrey Bogart
"Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun."
- Josephine Baker (after having failed to seduce a man decades younger than her.)
"Uh oh..."
- Michael J. Smith (crew member of the ill fated space shuttle Challenger, said half a second before the shuttle disintegrated.)
"There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."
- Cicero (to the centurion send to assassinate him.)
"I want nothing but death."
- Jane Austen (answering her sister who had asked if she wanted something.)
"Go away. I'm all right."
- H.G. Wells (not noticing that anything was wrong with him.)
"No."
- Alexander Graham Bell (signed this, when his deaf wife whispered "Don't leave me.")
"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (to the priest at the side of his deathbed, who asked Voltaire to use the last few moments left to renounce Satan.)
"Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me."
- Joan Crawford (to her housekeeper who had started praying loudly.)
"That's not true! I'm gonna die in this suit?!"
- Friedrich Wilhelm I (König von Preußen)
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
- Humphrey Bogart
"Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun."
- Josephine Baker (after having failed to seduce a man decades younger than her.)
"Uh oh..."
- Michael J. Smith (crew member of the ill fated space shuttle Challenger, said half a second before the shuttle disintegrated.)