This extract is taken from the play "Julius Caesar". Caesar tell this to his wife when she is frightened by the the dream she had about Caesar's death and pleads that he stays at home and not go to...
The line is often quoted as "A coward dies a thousand deaths, but the valiant taste death but once." The actual quote is from Act 1, Scene 2, Line 32 of "Julius Cesear", written by William...
The correct quotation is "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once". It's from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 2 Scene 2