Famous Last Words/Theatre/William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's characters had plenty of these. If you're the title character in a tragedy, you're getting one.


 * Coriolanus
 * "If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, that, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. Boy!" Unfortunately for Coriolanus those weren't his last words, as this final fit of rage causes him to carry on before finally being suddenly and unceremoniously cut down by assassins in front of his murderous rival Aufidius (no dramatic final confrontation for you!). His actual last words are "O that I had him, with six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe, to use my lawful sword!", which are a bit rubbish considering he has a mouth to rival the Tenth Doctor's. This was no doubt intentional.
 * Hamlet:
 * "O, I am slain!"
 * "God ha' mercy on his soul! And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye."
 * "The drink, the drink! I am poison'd!"
 * "O, yet defend me friends; I am but hurt."
 * "Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet: mine and my father's death come not upon thee, nor thine on me."
 * "The rest is silence."
 * Julius Caesar:
 * "Et Tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar."
 * "Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the sword that kill'd thee."
 * "Caesar, now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."
 * King Lear:
 * "Do you see this? Look on her! Look, her lips! Look there, look there!"
 * Macbeth:
 * "Murder!"
 * "What's done cannot be undone. -- To bed, to bed, to bed!"
 * "Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
 * Othello:
 * "Farewell, commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!"
 * "Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word."
 * "I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss."
 * Richard III:
 * "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worm's meat of me. I have it, and soundly too. -- Your houses!"
 * "Thou wretched boy, that didst consort [Mercutio] here, shalt with him hence!"
 * "Thus with a kiss I die."
 * "If thou be merciful, open the tomb. Lay me with Juliet."
 * "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."