Famous Last Words/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* Peter the Great had decided that he'd decide whom to leave his position to immediately before he died, allowing him to make a well-informed decision. Naturally, his last words were "I leave everything to..."

* William Pitt the ''Elder'''s last words are sometimes given as "If we must fall, then ''let us fall like men!''" (while giving a speech in the House of Lords about the possibility of Great Britain being invaded by the French during the American Revolutionary War). However, though he collapsed immediately after this, he didn't actually die until some days later.

* "Good-bye, boys; I die a true American." -- William "Bill the Butcher" Poole, both the real life version of him and the fictionalized one from ''[[Gangs of New York]]''.

* "Vi faccio vedere come muore un Italiano!" ("I'll show you how an Italian dies!") -- Fabrizio Quattrocchi on being executed by Iraqi terrorists.