And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the...

Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound...

Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

I’ll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just...

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.

He’d always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive

You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes’. Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You...

The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship...

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can’t be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,your Sister but beware of Loving any...

He said to the cardinal, “I’m a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments...

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he’d be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

A lawyer can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns.

You can’t hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don’t be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You’re a very lucky fellow. – Calo

Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should...

But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should...

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

‎”But you’re the toughest son of a b!&€# i’ve ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn’t have to ask me...

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very “poetry of his soul”.Well,it’s not easy but men do it all...

It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn’t go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, “Life is so beautiful,” then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.