# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/61 "2015-04-15T03:13:59Z")
“What are your legs? Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard! Then let’s see you do it!” - Archy Hamilton, _Gallipoli_ . ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/62 "2015-04-15T03:52:32Z")
“Oh no, not again” ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/63 "2015-04-15T03:58:45Z")
[quote=“Chefguy, post:40, topic:717644”] Little Bill Daggett ( **Unforgiven** ): “I don’t deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.” > [@Sitnam](#): > > Only because it leads into one of the best retorts ever. > > “I don’t deserve this…to die like this. I was building a house.” Not his last line. Little Bill: “I don’t deserve to die like this…I was building a house.” Will: “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” Little Bill: “I’ll see you in Hell William Munny.” Will: “Yeah.” Shoots. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/64 "2015-04-15T13:31:31Z")
Dave Bowman: “My god, it’s full of stars.” 2001 - A Space Odyssey ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/65 "2015-04-15T14:06:09Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > “Don’t be ridiculous, men - they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!” > > - Col. John Sedgwick, 1864 > > Regards, > Shodan I was going to mention this one. Wouldn’t be surprised if a version of it has made it into a movie. [Sedgwick was a Major General, though](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick): > [@](#): > > Sedgwick was the highest ranking Union casualty in the Civil War. Although James B. McPherson was in command of an army at the time of his death and Sedgwick of a corps, Sedgwick had the most senior rank by date of all major generals killed. Upon hearing of his death, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, flabbergasted by the news, repeatedly asked, “Is he really dead?”[6] ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/66 "2015-04-15T14:09:19Z")
Danny DeVito in “Heist:” “Don’t you want to hear my last words?” Gene Hackman (as he shoots DeVito dead): “I just did.” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/67 "2015-04-15T14:19:12Z")
“Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line”! ---
**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 15, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/68 "2015-04-15T14:22:32Z")
Ronnie Wingate (to Bones Barboni in **Get Shorty** ): “Whatta you got there, a Wop 9? Fuckin’ Fiat of guns, always jammin’ on you at the wrong time.” [Bones nods, smiles and shoots him 4 times] ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/69 "2015-04-15T15:21:55Z")
Todd (John Connor’s foster father) in _ **Terminator II** _: “We should tell John to get rid of that fucking mutt.” ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/70 "2015-04-15T16:48:02Z")
“Beneath the Planet of the Apes” Charlton Heston-‘It’s Doomsday.’ ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/71 "2015-04-15T19:29:03Z")
No… no you can’t get away. From hell’s heart, I stab at thee… For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee… ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/72 "2015-04-15T19:41:11Z")
Gettin’ the shakes now. Last call for drinks. Bar’s closin’ down. Sun’s out. Where we goin’ for breakfast? Don’t wanna go far… Rough night. Tired, baby… Tired…" Carlito’s Way ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/73 "2015-04-15T19:53:09Z")
“'Tis well.” - George Washington “Take counsel with yourself, beloved, and ask whether you would indeed have me wait until I wither and fall from my high seat unmanned and witless. Nay, lady, I am the last of the Numenoreans and the latest King of the Elder Days; and to me has been given not only a span thrice that of Men of Middle-earth, but also the grace to go at my will, and give back my gift. Now, therefore I will sleep.” - King Elessar, _The Lord of the Rings_ “I am in fight to the death with this wallpaper. One of us has got to go.” - Oscar Wilde (attributed) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/74 "2015-04-15T19:59:54Z")
Sean Connery in _ **The Untouchables** _: “Leave it to a Wop to bring a knife to a gunfight!” ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/75 "2015-04-15T20:00:25Z")
2 for one in the same scene: Boyd Crowder: “We dug coal together” Raylan Givens: “That’s right” ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/76 "2015-04-15T20:05:10Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > 2 for one in the same scene: > > Boyd Crowder: “We dug coal together” > Raylan Givens: “That’s right” Damnit, I read one post too many. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/77 "2015-04-15T20:09:33Z")
Nick Adams as mass murderer John Gilbert Graham in _ **The FBI Story** _: “In case I get any mail, you can send it to Canon City Prison for the next month or so. After that you can send it to Hell!” ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/78 "2015-04-15T20:16:39Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “I hope you liked your drink,” sez Gunga Din. And by the same author: “Never seen death yet, Dickie? Well, now’s your chance to learn!” – _The ‘Mary Gloster’_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/79 "2015-04-15T20:20:32Z")
“Why don’t we just… wait here for a little while… see what happens?” – MacReady, _The Thing_ “Corn nuts!” – Heather Chandler, _Heathers_ ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644/80 "2015-04-15T20:31:29Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Damnit, I read one post too many. Ditto. Fuck. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-final-line/717644.md?page=5)