Godfather Quotes

“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...”
― mario puzo

“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Marlon Brando

“No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...”
― Mario Puzo

“Every man measures his own greed.”
― Mario Puzo.

“I don't know what I expected – no
maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface-
but this drug dealer is more like Al Pacino
at the beginning of The Godfather
reasonably bemused, untouched by his
criminal world, sitting with Diane Keaton
whispering about Luca Brazzi, not yet asleep
with the fishes, or like Al Pacino
from Glengarry Glen Ross, although actually,
now that I think about it, he's not
like Al Pacino at all but more like
Kevin Spacey from that film, and who's
ever been afraid of Kevin Spacey?”
― Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets

“If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime”
― Balzac

“Drop the gun, pick up the cannoli”
― Mario Puzo, Boter 1

“Famous temper like Sonny Corleone
Hidden agenda like Michael Corleone
I’m El Padrino like Vito Corleone
You're not a leader, you're Fredo Corleone”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Leave the gun, take the cannoli”
― Peter Clemenza

“Indeed, I breathe and live, following the will and path of Almighty God firmly, not the gag and choke of Godfather's criminal way.”
― Ehsan Sehgal