Who said the news of my demise is premature

Fortunately, there are still plenty of good—and accurate— Twain quotes to go around. BY Emily Petsko. Twain wrote a response, part of which made it into the article that ran in the Journal on June 2, Mark Twain was undecided whether to be more amused or annoyed when a Journal representative informed him today of the report in New York that he was dying in poverty in London History News Words.

Subscribe to our Newsletter! Avon: Servalan was planning on sending you [my] corpse, but the rumours of my death — Tarrant: —have been greatly exaggerated.

Avon: to himself Well, slightly exaggerated, anyway. Lord Tywin: I see that the rumors of your demise were unfounded. Tyrion: Sorry to disappoint you, Father. No need to leap up and embrace me, I wouldn't want you to strain yourself. Lancelot: Perceval, what are you doing here? Perceval: I'm taking the tour.

Arthur: What tour? You live here, you complete moron! Perceval: Yeah, but they take you places I've never seen! Apparently we can visit your tomb, that's got to be worth looking at. Lancelot: Not yet, not quite. Rather then tell them the truth, he makes up a story that their mother died and points out a tomb in a cemetery with no visitors as being their mother's grave. The narrator lives in guilt as his children go their lives leaving flowers and paying respects to this particular grave.

Recorded Comedy. On "Cocktail Bar" from Monty Python's Live at Drury Lane album , four businessmen engage in shop talk about an associate who made a financial killing, invested it, and is declaring himself as dead on April 5 as a tax dodge.

Only when she arrives for the finale is revealed that Dialga resisted Cyrus's command long enough to imprison DS along with the other Legendaries instead. Later, when DS and the Lake Trio finally find Palkia, who is the only one who can help them escape from the other dimension, they discover that Palkia has been petrified , presumably having been that way since the arc began.

Tabletop Games. The One Ring : Bardings who take the "Birthright" cultural Virtue get a single-use Unexplained Recovery from otherwise certain death, but their Standing score is reset to zero because they're presumed dead by their people.

Video Games. League of Legends : After respawning, the champion Ezreal says this quote, word-by-word. Escape from Monkey Island : The game starts with Elaine discovering that because she spent so much time out of the government of her islands, she was declared dead and had to get re-elected.

Elaine Marley: I'm going down to city hall to see about getting declared un-dead. Guybrush Threepwood: Won't that make you a flesh-eating zombie? Meathook: Guybrush! I'd heard you were killed by a giant clam! Guybrush: Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Meathook: Not to mention celebrated. Guybrush: What? Meathook: Nothing. Wrex: What brings you here? How's the Normandy? Shepard: Destroyed in a Collector surprise attack.

I ended up spaced. Wrex: Well, you look good. Ah, the benefits of a redundant nervous system! Shepard: Yeah, Humans don't have that. Wrex: Oh. It must have been painful, then. You're supposed to be lost with all hands. Despite wild speculation, Falstad has never been dead and anyone who claims such is a liar. Medivh: Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated. I mean, yes, I died, but people love to embellish. Web Comics. Girl Genius : Madam Oglavia Spudna has this response to a horrified captured librarian who has just realized who the well-known Torture Technician is as she was thought to be dead.

When Maxim challenges Old Man Death to a fight for his hat the old man mentions that some of the cavalry that they once rode with was through a few years ago and had said Maxim was dead. In The Order of the Stick , after Roy defeats Xykon in the Redmountains, he thought he finally fulfilled his mission, unaware that Redcloak had a Soul Jar that would enable Xykon to regenerate his body.

It wasn't until the Azure City saga where Roy learned from his father that Xykon was still alive. Stand Still, Stay Silent : Emil and Lalli try to escape a giant via a frozen body of water, but the fact that it can't hold Emil results in Lalli killing the giant via a burst of magic that shatters both the giant and the ice. They manage to escape on an ice floe and get ashore somewhere far away from the rest of the crew. When Sigrun backtracks the next morning looking for them, all she finds is the giant's exploded corpse right next to the part of the body of water that got its ice blown to bits by the magic burst.

She comes to the conclusion anyone would be killed by that and tells the rest of the crew upon returning. Western Animation. In All Hail King Julien , several characters assumed to have been eaten by fossa have turned up in the kingdom, including Julien's own parents. Presumably death by fossa is so common, anyone who suddenly vanishes is assumed to have been eaten. This was Aang's status for half of the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender following the second season finale, where Azula killed Aang only for Katara to bring him back.

While Sokka was excited to have such a stealthy advantage , Aang was initially upset that the world thought their only hope to end the war was gone forever, but eventually decided it was best that the world not know the Avatar was alive for now. Unfortunately, Azula, being the Magnificent Bitch she is, had a feeling that Aang was alive and not only had a plan to defend against the Gaang's invasion, but also make them waste their stealthy advantage.

Butthead corrects him that she just moved away. Dilbert had all of his benefits cut at work after spending a short period of time dead. On Family Guy this happened three times. The first time with Peter, who got out of a hospital bill by writing that he was dead.

The rest of the episode involved him making a deal with the Grim Reaper. The second time was when they got Quagmire out of a marriage with a psycho woman. Since her last name was also Quagmire by marriage, and she grabbed the Grim Reaper 's hand killing herself in the process , it all worked out nicely.

The third time also involved the Grim Reaper , but he was just there, he didn't harvest. Peter, Cleveland, Joe, and Quagmire all get stranded on a deserted island for quite some time and are declared dead.

Peter has to save his marriage since Brian married Lois during that time. In Futurama , Cubert was able to take over Planet Express because the Professor had been declared dead as a tax dodge. Farnsworth: Tax dodge nothing! Shendu: Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, Chan. Marguarita: Father McGrath! I thought you were dead! Father McGrath: I was! Real Life. The Trope Namer is Samuel " Mark Twain " Clemens, who gave the trope title as a statement in response to hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal.

The Journal had mistakenly reported the illness of his cousin James Ross Clemens who wasn't actually dead , either as Twain's own death. The original quote was: James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, [ The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration. Finally, I was stabbed during a brawl by drunken sailors in an Odessa pub.

The last account I deemed the most likely. It appears the reports of the end of this article have been greatly exaggerated. Feedback Video Example s :. Show Spoilers. You're Dead! Killed in Action! How well does it match the trope?

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