"Holy cow, look at all those ****ing Indians!"
- George Armstrong Custer
And a few real ones....
"I see that you have made three spelling mistakes."
- Thomas de Mahay, Marquis de Favras, French aristocrat, his last words upon reading his death sentence before being guillotined.
"Are you afraid I might catch a cold"?
- Sylvain Bailly, the first mayor of Paris, after being told to put on a coat against the cold November rain as he was being led to the guillotine.
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."
- Oscar Wilde
"Don’t let me die like this, tell them I said something."
- Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary.