Lawrence died defending his vessel and his famous last words, "Don't give up the ship," have been familiar to every schoolboy.
1996, Jane Irwin (editor), George Eliot's Daniel Deronda Notebooks[1], →ISBN, page 367:
When Arria's husband was hesitating to kill himself, she stabbed herself with his dagger, to demonstrate to him how to accomplish a noble suicide. Her famous last words—Paete, non dolet ["Paetus, it does not hurt!"].
Says one Sperry product executive: "As a manager, there is almost nothing you can do to get fired here." Considering the new circumstances, those could be famous last words.