# Most famous parting words **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923 "2007-03-21T21:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/61 "2007-03-24T22:58:23Z")
“Bite my shiny metal ass!” - Bender B. Rodriguez ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/62 "2007-03-25T05:12:32Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] “Top o’ the World ma. Top o’ the World”…Jimmy Cagney in that film I forget the title of :smack: [/QUOTE] That was **White Heat** , a real classic. Thanks for the reminder. 🙂 And how about _“Oh shit.”_ - Joe Pesci in **Goodfellas**. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/63 "2007-03-25T17:40:40Z")
“Ah well here goes the last of the Brudenells” The Light Brigade commander before the charge.(He was one of the survivors) If I should fall think only this of me That in some corner of a foreign field There will be a patch of richer dust That will remain forever England A poem by Siegfried Sassoon killed WW1 On being told that he would soon be up and about convalescing at Bognor Regis King George (V) I think ,said “Bugger Bognor” Though the official release was “what is the state of the empire?” "Why I think Iam becoming a god "1st servillan roman emperor mocking the practice of deifying recently dead emperors. “If you cant take a joke then you shouldnt have joined” last words heard by many squaddies prior to dying in an assault "Smoke me a kipper I ll be back in time for tea"Need I say who ?What a man !Red Dwarf ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/64 "2007-03-25T17:47:44Z")
“The guns have stopped firing !Its over! My god I made it ! I survived the Great War of1914 to1917” Captain Darling, Black Adder goes Forth. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/65 "2007-03-25T19:21:20Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] If I should fall think only this of me That in some corner of a foreign field There will be a patch of richer dust That will remain forever England A poem by Siegfried Sassoon killed WW1 [/QUOTE] Actually … If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A poem by Rupert Brooke killed WW1 ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/66 "2007-03-26T22:01:01Z")
“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” -Pancho Villa ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/67 "2007-03-26T22:20:19Z")
John Wilkes Booth, a drama queen to the end, asked to see his hands (he was paralyzed), looked at them and said “Useless. Useless.” ---
**Author:** ![Baine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Baine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baine)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/68 "2007-03-27T00:35:33Z")
“And he waved goodbye, saying ‘Don’t you cry, I’ll be back again some day.’” -Frosty the Snowman ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/69 "2007-03-27T02:49:58Z")
As dying words go, you can’t beat Ethan Allen’s. On his deathbed, a clergyman told him that the angles were waiting for him. Allen snapped back, “Waiting, are they? Let 'em wait!” ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/70 "2007-03-27T06:02:05Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] “But can you shut up just ONE minute?” [/QUOTE] Yeah, it’s too bad she didn’t have time to tell you about all the IBM and Microsoft shares she had squirreled away behind the wallboard in the kitchen! Hehe! Oops, almost forgot, “I’ll be back”[/Terminator]. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/71 "2007-03-27T09:20:47Z")
\*\*“And goodnight Mrs. Calabash. Wherever you are”. \*\* - _Jimmy Durante_ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/72 "2007-03-27T12:05:28Z")
Some doctor or other, checking his own pulse: “Stopped.” ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/73 "2007-04-05T18:06:11Z")
“Go on then, there are other worlds than this”. (From ‘The Gunslinger’). The line always chills me, and also, strangely, fills me with hope. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/74 "2007-04-06T07:08:13Z")
“My God , it’s full of stars”…2001 “WTF was that?”…Mayor of Hiroshima ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/75 "2007-04-06T07:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] "Smoke me a kipper I ll be back… [/QUOTE] for _breakfast_ [/nitpick mode] ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/76 "2007-04-06T07:55:39Z")
“It’s alright, darling, we have all the time in the world!” –James Bond (George Lazenby) to his just-murdered wife Cathy (Diana Rigg) “Fetch me my slippers!” –Professor Higgins to Eliza Doolittle ---
**Author:** ![uglyduckling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e99b99/32.png) [@uglyduckling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglyduckling)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/77 "2007-04-06T07:58:24Z")
Grandpa’s last words as he is laying in the hospital " Don’t forget to pick up the big screen and the new car I won from publishers clearinghouse" HaHa! He was always into those scams but always thought he was gonna win. Needless to say there was nothing to pick up ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/78 "2007-04-06T13:55:23Z")
“Your loss, toots.” Rev. Scot Sloan in the early days of Doonesbury after his romantic overtures have been rejected. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923/79 "2007-04-06T14:32:25Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s alright, darling, we have all the time in the world!" > –James Bond (George Lazenby) to his just-murdered wife Cathy (Diana Rigg) _Cathy???_ How could you forget that it’s _Tracy_? Teresa di Vincenzo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-parting-words/396923.md?page=3)