Sunday, May 29, 2011

Famous Last Words with Savoir Faire

Even at the end, they did it with style!

William Somerset Maugham:

"Dying is a very dull and dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it"



Pancho Villa: Mexican revolutionary leader:

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something…"



Oscar Wilde, Sipping champagne on his deathbed:

"And now, I am dying beyond my means."


H. G. Wells:



"Go away...I'm all right."



Lawrence Oates:



British explorer, who sacrificed himself in 1912 in an attempt to save his starving companions during Scott's expedition to the Pole:



"I am just going outside and I may be some time"

Dominique Bouhours,

"I am about to, or I am going to, die; either expression is used."