historyofeurope:

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
— Oscar Wilde, writer

Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.
— Queen Marie Antoinette (after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine)

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
— Voltaire (when asked by a priest to renounce Satan)

Don’t disturb my circles!
— Archimedes, Greek mathematician (killed by the Romans, while proving geometric theorems in the sand before him)

It’s stopped.
—Joseph Henry Green, british surgeon (upon checking his own pulse)

I can’t sleep
— J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan

Acta est fabula, plaudite! (The play is over, applaud!)
— Attributed to Caesar Augustus, ruler of the Roman empire

France, armée, Joséphine… (France, army, Josephine…)
— Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France

A King should die standing.
— Louis XVIII, king of France

I have not told half of what I saw.
— Marco Polo, Venetian traveller and writer

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!
— Karl Marx, German philosopher (asked by his housekeeper if he had any last words)