Famous Last Words/Quotes

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More Weight.
—Giles Corey, who was being tortured by being weighed down in order to get a confession out of him, thus making it legal to dispossess his family after his death.
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
—Supposed last words of Karl Marx
As last words go, not very memorable.
The Narrator on Sidorak's last words, Bionicle

Angelica: Spare me the histrionics, Jim. I wouldn't expect that kind of juvenile trick from you, staring over my shoulder and widening your eyes as if there were someone behind me. I'm not going to turn and look. You're not getting out of this one alive.

Slippery Jim: Famous last words.
"Well, that was unexpected..."
—Varon the Undefeatable, Warhammer 40,000: The Traitor's Hand

Sultan: Have you any famous last words?
Baron Munchausen: Not yet.

Sultan: "Not yet"? Is that famous?
"Any last words? Didn't think so."
—Item description for Chaotic Executioner Hood in Adventure Quest Worlds
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Not really the last words of Pancho Villa
"And always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said, 'A truck!'"
Go away, I'm all right.
—H.G. Wells' last words
I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way for simple bullets. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
Civil War General John Sedgwick, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, 1864

Duckman: Did I ever tell you my Dad's last words to me?
Cornfed: "Careful, son, I don't think the safety is on."

Duckman: Before that!
"Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone."