Who said rumours of my death

According to legend, a reporter found Mark Twain, and asked him what comment he had about the rumor that he was dead. As the story goes, Mark Twain replied,. This story grew and persisted over the years, probably because people find it as humorous today as they did back then. Interestingly, the famous quote is actually a misquote. The famous quotations and phrases linked to each day of the year.

Post them on my Famous Quotations Facebook page or send me an email. Email Address. This Day in Quotes. Newer Post Older Post Home. Even Scar assumes this, as the hyenas didn't tell him he got away from them. When he returns to take back the Pride Lands , everyone barring Nala, who had already found out he was alive at first thinks he is Mufasa's ghost. In Megamind , Metro Man goes so far as to fake his death before retiring to live alone. He makes a return for the finale in a spiritual sense, as it's actually Megamind using a hologram disguise, and quotes the trope name almost word-for-word: Metro Man: My death was Cera: Angrily Now will you believe me?!

Hades: So you "took care of him", huh? Films — Live-Action. In Avengers: Endgame , Scott Lang a. Ant-Man is falsely assumed to have been one of the many victims of Thanos's Snap.

However, in reality, he was in the Quantum Realm, and the only three people who knew he was there and knew how to get him out were actual victims of the Snap, as seen in the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp. He finally escapes from the Quantum Realm in Endgame , but five years have passed in the real world while only five hours passed from his perspective.

This leads to an emotional scene where he reunites with his now-teenage daughter Cassie, who assumed he had died. Later, he and the remaining Avengers exploit the Timey-Wimey Ball rules of the quantum realm to go back in time and steal Infinity Stones to create a new gauntlet to bring everyone back. In Batman Begins , Bruce Wayne goes on a multi-year incognito journey to find himself, and when he gets back Alfred tells him he's been thought dead.

It's mostly played as a throwaway joke, though, and is sorted out between scenes with no lasting complications. Alfred mentions that there have been moves to have him declared legally dead, and Bruce says it's a good thing he left everything to Alfred then. In Beat the Devil , Peterson and Dannreuther are pushing a broken-down car along a mountain road when it gets away from them and careens off a cliff into the sea. They are reported as dead, which surprises them when they return.

Besides being funny, this is plot-relevant: Harry finds out about the uranium scheme when Rovello, believing his partner to be dead, approaches Harry and tries to get him to join. John Wayne's character in Big Jake hears everyone he meets tell him that they thought he had died.

Eventually, Big Jake gets so annoyed, he promises to kill the next person to say it to him — who, of course, turns out to be the Big Bad A Bridge Too Far. Urquhart's paratroopers are quite astonished when the General turns up alive, having been holed up in a Dutch house for several days.

Unfortunately, things have gotten even worse since he was away. In Cast Away , Chuck Noland is declared dead after being stranded on a deserted island for years. They even held a funeral for him.

Chuck Noland: You had a coffin? What was in it? Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney. You dead? Possibly as a Shout-Out to Mark Twain , one book in Animorphs sees a new alien race that according to Ax was killed off millennia ago. In John Steakley 's Armor , the protagonist is the only survivor of a military unit that gets wiped out.

The confusion of circumstances results in parts of the computerized record-keeping system thinking he's also dead, while other parts are aware he's alive; this, to put it mildly, does not make his life any easier. Ben and Me : Ben accidentally convinces some locals that he's drowned when he runs off chasing a dog that had stolen his cap, leaving his clothes on the banks. Doc Daneeka from Catch is listed as dead because he was on the flight roster for a bomber that flew into a mountain.

The fact that he was standing there in person, telling them he wasn't dead, failed to convince the army bureaucracy. The Cat Who The local law enforcement where the car is found, who don't know Qwill, assume the dead man is the owner of the car and issue an incorrect report. While most of Moose County is thrown into deep mourning, Arch goes to where Qwill is staying to get the cats — and almost has a heart attack when he finds Qwill alive and sort of well, having just fought off an attempt on his life.

Near the end of The Conformist , Marcello discovers that Lino, the man he shot as a child after he attempted to molest Marcello, is still alive and that the obituary he read in the paper shortly after the event was erroneous. Then Christopher finds all the letters she's been writing to him since she left his father. In Enoch Arden , the title character returns after being shipwrecked for more than ten years to find his wife has married another man. Grent's Fall : While his army may have been scattered before the story started, the Bladecleaver survived unharmed.

Harry Bosch is surprised in Two Kinds of Truth when his appeal for help in the year-old Esme Tavares missing person case results in Esme Tavares contacting him.

It seems that Tavares, who was presumed dead by everyone after she disappeared from her home while her infant daughter slept in a crib, had simply skipped out on a bad marriage and changed her name. Tolkien 's The Hobbit , when Bilbo Baggins finally returns to his house, he finds a huge crowd gathered for his estate auction.

Since he had left without telling anyone, and not returned for a year, everyone in the Shire had assumed he was dead. His heirs, the Sackville-Bagginses, are rather disappointed when he turns up.

Honor Harrington : Honor herself says a variation on the line when she returns to Manticore in Ashes of Victory. In this case, not only has she been gone for the better part of two years, but the People's Republic of Haven actually faked footage of her execution and broadcast it throughout the galaxy. This causes a lot of complications, not least of which that her estate has been divided up according to her will. Honor is less bothered by this than by certain twenty-foot-tall memorials to her.

Even the Peeps thought she had died in a failed attempt to escape. But no one was going to believe that , so they claimed to have formally executed her, to put a badass face on the debacle.

Roughly half a decade later, Honor's best friend Michelle Henke is seemingly killed at the Battle of Solon. Turns out she actually made it off the ship and was tucked safely away in a Havenite POW camp. When the two meet again, Michelle remarks that "now we're even for that jaunt to Cerberus you took.

Drizzt thought Jarlaxle was dead since the end of Gauntlgrym , the first book of The Neverwinter Saga , but he is rescued by the drow mercenary in The Last Threshold. Drizzt even runs up to hug him, while he banters about his supposed death.

In The Satanic Verses , by Salman Rushdie, Saladin Chamcha has trouble with red tape and getting his career back in order after being presumed dead in the plane crash. This obituary is filled with errors. A wandering Jester, with a Dancing-Bear they found their way into the Palace, one day has been telling people he comes from Fairyland, and that the Warden died there. I wanted the Vice-Warden to question him, but, most unluckily, he and my Lady were always out walking when the Jester came round.

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