# Best final line **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644 "2015-04-14T15:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/21 "2015-04-14T20:20:10Z")
“I hope you liked your drink,” sez Gunga Din. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/22 "2015-04-14T20:23:35Z")
From one of Johnny Cash’s best songs: _Filled with rage then, Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw. But the stranger drew his gun and fired, before he even saw As Billy Joe fell to the floor, a crowd all gathered 'round And wondered at his final words:_ * * * “Don’t take your guns to town, Son. Leave your guns at home, Bill. Don’t take your guns to town.”\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/23 "2015-04-14T20:27:38Z")
One of my favorites ever: “Well, gosh!” Almost as good as: “Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold! Enough!’” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/24 "2015-04-14T20:28:40Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > “You always were an asshole, Gorman.” Great choice! But at least the “a-hole” got to redeem himself. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/25 "2015-04-14T20:30:05Z")
I know now why you cry, but it’s something I can never do. Goodbye ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/26 "2015-04-14T20:30:13Z")
“Gazpacho soup” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/27 "2015-04-14T20:30:56Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > If we were going in that direction, I’d add Roald Dahl’s last line for “Bitch”: “I don’t know who you are, young man, but you’ve done me a power of good.” Incidentally, this was a catch phrase on [The Goon Show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Bloodnok) before Dahl put it in his story. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/28 "2015-04-14T20:32:16Z")
“Tell Mike it was just business. I always liked him.” ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/29 "2015-04-14T20:35:00Z")
Cyrano de Bergerac’s last soliloquy was littered with potential good last lines. It’s actually a bit spoiled because he keeps getting up, delivering a line, fainting, comes to, delivers another – eventually you’re kind of thinking “get on with it already”. But he finally expires with the words [“My panache”](http://www.ibiblio.org/ais/sllcy5-6.htm) on his lips. Not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/30 "2015-04-14T20:39:48Z")
“Don’t be ridiculous, men - they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!” - Col. John Sedgwick, 1864 Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/31 "2015-04-14T20:45:20Z")
“Clever girl…” (From my favorite character in a so-so movie.) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/32 "2015-04-14T20:45:22Z")
The Romulan commander in _Star Trek_ TOS: “The Enterprise Incident.” “I regret that we meet in this way. You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could have called you friend.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/33 "2015-04-14T20:47:26Z")
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” - Sydney Carton, _A Tale Of Two Cities_ by Charles Dickens ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/34 "2015-04-14T20:47:44Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > Thorin for the win, but what others do you like/respect? Who’s Thorin and what did he/she say? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/35 "2015-04-14T20:54:14Z")
“It’s been a funny sort of day, hasn’t it?” ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/36 "2015-04-14T20:54:35Z")
> [@Dorjan](#): > > **The Hunt for Red October:**" I would like to have seen Montana." - Vasili Borodin An even better one from THfRO: Andrei Bonovia: [to Captain Tupolev] You arrogant ass! You’ve killed us! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/37 "2015-04-14T20:55:57Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Who’s Thorin and what did he/she say? Thorin Oakenshield, King under the mountain. (from the Hobbit) > [@](#): > > “No!” said Thorin. “There is more in you of good than you know, child > of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If > more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a > merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/38 "2015-04-14T20:56:13Z")
“Remember what I said? About seeing a light when you die? It ain’t true. I can’t see a damn thing.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/39 "2015-04-14T21:15:06Z")
“[We die.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c55PtTyvfE4)” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/40 "2015-04-14T21:25:01Z")
Little Bill Daggett ( **Unforgiven** ): “I don’t deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.” Gus McCrae ( **Lonesome Dove** ): “My God, Woodrow. It has been quite a party, ain’t it?” Doc Holiday (both in the movie Tombstone and in real life), looking at his bootless feet: “This is funny.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644.md?page=3)