Death bed conversations

[pagerbear]

Here's the place to post famous last words.

For instance, who was it who, upon waking up and seeing a small fire had broken out when his lamp ignited the bedclothes, said "Flames? Not yet, I think!" Or something like that.

[Rowdyboy]

1. Oscar Wilde

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do".

[gonefishing]

8. I know I am out-a-thread

but, I love OscarWilde..

Here is one that is so appropriate for todays political arena:

The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.

[Rowdyboy]

9. He also said..."Some cause happiness wherever they go...

others, whenever they go"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. King George V

Bugger Bognor.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. James Joyce

It's been a hell of a morning.

[gonefishing]

4. I am dying as I have lived, beyond my means

While dying of cerebral meningitis in a Parisian hotel room, Oscar Wilde was offered a glass of champagne. His final toast? "I am dying as I have lived, beyond my means."

He also had a great quote about the dreadful wall-paper in his room. I can't remember how it went exactly.

EDIT Found it!

'Either that wallpaper goes, or I do'

[NoPasaran]

5. "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."

General John Sedgewick, moments before being shot at Spottsylvania

[Rowdyboy]

6. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th 1826

50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Stories are told that Adams' last words were "Thomas Jefferson survives"...Tom Jefferson's last words were "Is it the 4th?"

[Az]

7. Socrates

I drank what?!

[TXlib]

10. "Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel."

-- George Appel, executed in electric chair in New York, 1928.

[SiobhanClancy]

11. Humphrey Bogart

"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis"