The World’s Stupidest Last Words

People say the stupidest things, especially, it would seem, when they’ve no time to make up for it by saying something sensible. This collection features scores of last gasps including, ‘Either this wallpaper goes or I do’ (Oscar Wilde), ‘Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel’ (George Appel, sitting in the electric chair), and ‘Die, my dear doctor? That’s the last thing I shall do’ (Lord Palmerston).