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I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be making a topic...
But I will anyway!
I just wish to see the 'Famous Last Words' from history!
These are ACTUAL last words only, please.
I'll start:
"Monsieur, I beg your pardon. I did not do it on purpose."
-Marie Antoinette, after she accendently stepped on the executioner's foot.

Lord Admiral Nelson - "God bless you, Hardy."

A bit of background information to this... I'm sure you all know who Nelson was. (He was our greatest Naval admiral throughout our history). Nelson was shot by a French marksman whilst giving orders on the deck of the H.M.S Victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He was taken down below deck (I would give you the name of the room he was taken to, but I cannot remember it) and called for Captain Thomas Hardy. He said to Hardy: "Don't throw me overboard... Take care of my dear Lady Hamilton, Hardy; take care of poor Lady Hamilton. Kiss me, Hardy." After that, Nelson blessed him and died.

Charles I's final word was intented to be, "remember", but he ended up saying "wait for the sign". Har har.

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the king and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never: and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

After being blindfolded and kneeling at the block, she repeated several times: To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul.
Anne Bolyen's speech at her execution

First, when she mounted the said scaffold she said to the people standing thereabout: 'Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact, indeed, against the queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me: but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency, before God, and the face of you, good Christian people, this day' and therewith she wrung her hands, in which she had her book. And then, kneeling down, she turned to Feckenham [the dean of St Paul's] saying, 'Shall I say this psalm?' And he said, 'Yea.' Then she said the psalm of Miserere mei Deus, in English, in most devout manner, to the end. Then she stood up and gave...Mistress Tilney her gloves and handkercher, and her book to master Bruges, the lieutenant's brother; forthwith she untied her gown. The hangman went to her to help her therewith; then she desired him to let her alone, and also with her other attire and neckercher, giving to her a fair handkercher to knit about her eyes.
Then the hangman kneeled down, and asked her forgiveness, whom she gave most willingly. Then he willed her to stand upon the straw: which doing, she saw the block. Then she said, 'I pray you dispatch me quickly.' Then she kneeled down, saying, 'Will you take it off before I lay me down?' and the hangman answered her, 'No, madame.' She tied the kercher about her eyes; then feeling for the block said, 'What shall I do? Where is it?' One of the standers-by guiding her thereto, she laid her head down upon the block, and stretched forth her body and said: 'Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!' And so she ended.
Lady Jane Grey's execution

Chopin: "No more." (in response to being questioned if he was in pain) also frequently seen "The Earth is suffocating. . .Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."

Beethoven: "Friends applaud, the comedy is finished." or "I shall hear in heaven!" (no one is sure)

Haydn:"Cheer up children, I'm all right"

Composers give me joy!

Also I just found this site while trying to verify these
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Famous_last_words

One of the best has to be :
"It's nothing" by Archduke Franz Ferdinand
I find that absolutely hilarious (in a dark sort of way)

Gentlemen, illustrious captains of the army, and our most Christian comrades in arms: we now see the hour of battle approaching. I have therefore elected to assemble you here to make it clear that you must stand together with firmer resolution than ever. You have always fought with glory against the enemies of Christ. Now the defence of your fatherland and of the city known the world over, which the infidel and evil Turks have been besieging for two and fifty days, is committed to your lofty spirits.

Be not afraid because its walls have been worn down by the enemy's battering. For your strength lies in the protection of God and you must show it with your arms quivering and your swords brandished against the enemy. I know that this undisciplined mob will, as is their custom, rush upon you with loud cries and ceaseless volleys of arrows. These will do you no bodily harm, for I see that you are well covered in armour. They will strike the walls, our breastplates and our shiellds. So do not imitate the Romans who, when the Carthaginians went into battle against them, allowed their cavalry to be terrified by the fearsome sight and sound of elephants.

In this battle you must stand firm and have no fear, no thought of flight, but be inspired to resist with ever more herculean strength. Animals may run away from animals. But you are men, men of stout heart, and you will hold at bay these dumb brutes, thrusting your spears and swords into them, so that they will know that they are fighting not against their own kind but against the masters of animals.

You are aware that the impious and infidel enemy has disturbed the peace unjustly. He has violated the oath and treaty that he made with us; he has slaughtered our farmers at harvest time; he has erected a fortress on the Propontis as it were to devour the Christians; he has encircled Galata under a pretence of peace.

Now he threatens to capture the city of Constantine the Great, your fatherland, the place of ready refuge for all Christians, the guardian of all Greeks, and to profane its holy shrines of God by turning them into stables for fits horses. Oh my lords, my brothers, my sons, the everlasting honour of Christians is in your hands.

You men of Genoa, men of courage and famous for your infinite victories, you who have always protected this city, your mother, in many a conflict with the Turks, show now your prowess and your aggressive spirit toward them with manly vigour.

You men of Venice, most valiant heroes, whose swords have many a time made Turkish blood to flow and who in our time have sent so many ships, so many infidel souls to the depths under the command of Loredano, the most excellent captain of our fleet, you who have adorned this city as if it were your own with fine, outstanding men, lift high your spirits now for battle.

You, my comrades in arms, obey the commands of your leaders in the knowledge that this is the day of your glory -- a day on which, if you shed but a drop of blood, you will win for yourselves crowns of martyrdom and eternal fame.

The final speech of Constantine XI, who died defending Constantinople.

"My dear, she won't think anything of it." -- Abraham Lincoln

Mary Lincoln had just asked him,"what would Miss Harris [a member of their party at Ford's Theater that night] think of my hanging on to you so?"

These are the last confirmed words to come from Mr. Lincoln. Very shortly after replying to her, he turned his head to the left to view Ambrose Burnside entering the theater, and John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger.

"I'm bored with it all." - Winston Churchill

"Such is life." - Ned Kelly

"Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!" - Karl Marx


Those are great. :O