“I hope you liked your drink,” sez Gunga Din.
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.”***
One of my favorites ever:
“Well, gosh!”
Almost as good as:
“Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold! Enough!’”
Great choice! But at least the “a-hole” got to redeem himself.
I know now why you cry, but it’s something I can never do. Goodbye
“Gazpacho soup”
Incidentally, this was a catch phrase on The Goon Show before Dahl put it in his story.
“Tell Mike it was just business. I always liked him.”
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” on his lips. Not too shabby.
“Don’t be ridiculous, men - they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance!”
- Col. John Sedgwick, 1864
Regards,
Shodan
“Clever girl…”
(From my favorite character in a so-so movie.)
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.”
“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
Who’s Thorin and what did he/she say?
“It’s been a funny sort of day, hasn’t it?”
An even better one from THfRO:
Andrei Bonovia: [to Captain Tupolev] You arrogant ass! You’ve killed us!
Thorin Oakenshield, King under the mountain. (from the Hobbit)
“Remember what I said? About seeing a light when you die? It ain’t true. I can’t see a damn thing.”
“We die.”
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.”