Famous Last Words

According to one of his daughters, when on his death bed, Bob Hope was asked where he would like to be buried; the comedian raised an eyebrow and simply answered, “Surprise me.”

Want the last words of someone famous quoted at your funeral? Make a note of it in your own Funeral Plan.

Last words of some poor souls on the brink of execution…

• When asked for any last requests whilst faced with the firing squad, James Rogers replied, “Why, yes! A bullet proof vest,”

• George Appel, just before he was executed in electric chair.
  “Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.”

• “How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries”.
  James French, executed in electric chair in Oklahoma.

• “Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you’re screwing around.”
  Carl Panzram, executed by hanging Leavenworth, Kansas.

• “Remember, the death penalty is murder.”
  Robert Drew

• “I’d rather be fishing.”
  Jimmy Glass

• “I did not get my Spaghetti-O’s, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”
  Thomas J. Grasso, when asked about his last meal.

• “Lock and load. Let’s do it.”
  G. W. Green. Executed by injection, Texas.

• “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”
  Robert Alton Harris

• “I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight.”
  Lionel Herrera

• “Such is life,”
  Ned Kelly

• “Monsieur, I beg your pardon.” 
  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, spoken to the executioner, after she stepped on his foot.

• “Today is a good day to die. I forgive all of you. I hope God does too.”
  Mario Benjamin Murphy

• “Shoot straight you bastards and don’t make a mess of it!”       
  Harry Harbord “Breaker” Morant, executed by firing squad.

• “Capital punishment … them without the capital get the punishment.”
  John Spenkelink.

Last words of the more law-abiding, famous and notorious…

• “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”
  Oscar Wilde, writer

• “Die, my dear doctor? That is the last thing I shall do.”
  Lord Palmerston

•  “Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”
   John Barrymore, actor

•  “Now comes the mystery.”
   Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist

•  “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
   Humphrey Bogart, actor

•  “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room – and God damn it – died in a hotel room.”
  Eugene O’Neill, writer

• “Am I dying or is this my birthday?”
  Lady Nancy Astor, when she woke briefly and found herself surrounded by her family.

• “Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I’m happy.”
   Ethel Barrymore, actress

• “Don’t let poor Nelly (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) starve.”
  Charles II, King of England and Scotland

• “It is very beautiful over there.”
  Thomas Alva Edison, inventor

• “Get my swan costume ready.”
  Anna Pavlova, ballerina

•  “Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!”
  Florenz Ziegfeld, showman