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Mario Puzo Quotes

Total quotes: 87
“Power wears out those who do not have it.”
— Calo, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: Power
“I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.”
— Hyman Roth, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: painful urination
“[to Rocco, who has killed Paulie in the car] Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
— Pete Clemenza, The Godfather
Tagged: Gun, Cannoli, Decisions
“[to the Don, quietly] Just lie here, Pop. I'll take care of you now. I'm with you now. I'm with you. [he takes the Don's hand and kisses it, the Don begins to cry]”
— Michael Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: Death, Crying
“[to Michael] Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that.”
— Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: Traitor, Warning
“If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: History, Murder
“I'm going in to take a nap. When I wake, if the money's on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't.”
— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Nap, Money, Business
“Michael: Was it a boy?

Tom Hagen: Mikey, after three and a half months...

Michael: WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER ANYMORE? WAS IT A BOY?”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Birth, Boy, straight answer
“[flashback] Whatcha go to college? To get stupid? You're really stupid!”
— Santino, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: College, Stupid, insults
“[picks up baby Michael, kisses him, holds him] Michael, your father loves you very much. Very much.”
— Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Love, paternal love, Father Son
“[while watching a 'Punch and Judy' puppet show] Oh, this is too violent for me!”
— Don Fanucci, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: punch and judy, puppet show, violent
“[Before shooting occurs at the Michael Corleone estate] Michael, why are the drapes open?”
— Kay Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: shooting, drapes
“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 have to take time and trouble.”
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Tagged: Love, Choices
“[Tessio brings in Luca Brasi's bulletproof vest, delivered with a fish inside]
Sonny: What the hell is this?

Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”
— Santino 'Sonny' Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: Sicilian, sleeps with the fishes, Murder
“I am a retired investor on a pension, and I wished to live there as a Jew in the twilight of my life.”
— Hyman Roth, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: retired, Pension, Jew, Israel
“[in Italian] Do me this favor. I won't forget it. Ask your friends in the neighborhood about me. They'll tell you I know how to return a favor.”
— Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: favor, Reciprocity
“Michael Corleone: Keep 'em alive.

Rocco Lampone: We'll try.

Michael Corleone: ROCCO! ALIVE!”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: alive
“I trust these men with my life, Senator. To ask them to leave would be an insult.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Trust, Insult
“Don Lucchesi: It's not personal. It's business.

Michael Corleone: Very well. You want to do business with me. I will do business with you.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: Business, personal
“It seems in today's world the power to absolve debt is greater than the power of forgiveness.”
— Archbishop Gilday, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: Debt, forgiveness
“Capt. McCluskey: How's the Italian food in this restaurant?

Sollozzo: Good. Try the veal, it's the best in the city.

Capt. McCluskey: I'll have it.”
— Capt. Mark McCluskey, The Godfather
Tagged: italian food, veal
“Sonny: How's Paulie?

Clemenza: Oh, Paulie... won't see him no more.”
— Santino 'Sonny' Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: Death, Murdered
“The negotiator's at my house playing pinochle with some of my men, he's happy. They're letting him win.”
— Pete Clemenza, The Godfather
Tagged: pinochle
“What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with the government.”
— Hyman Roth, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Government, Crime, Partnership
“Those were the great old days, you know...And we was like the Roman Empire...The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire...”
— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Good Old Days, Roman Empire
“He's has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Dying, Heart Attack
“Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners.”
— Johnny Ola, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Death, Prison, Deportation, Loss
“Vincent Mancini: Well you tell him from me, that he can live, or he can die.

Michael Corleone: Vincent, will you SHUT UP?”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: live, Die, shut up
“Your sins are terrible. It is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you don't believe that. You will not change.”
— Cardinal Lamberto, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: sins, Suffering, Redemption, Change
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Tagged: Friends, Friendship, Government, Talent
“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”
— Calo, The Godfather
Tagged: Sicily, Women, danger, Shotguns
“[after Michael gets off the phone with Kay, clearly too embarrassed to tell her he loves her]
Mikey, why don't you tell that nice girl you love her? I love you with all-a my heart, if I don't see-a you again soon, I'm-a gonna die.”
— Pete Clemenza, The Godfather
Tagged: Love, Shame, italian accent
“Senator Pat Geary: I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. You and your whole fucking family.

Michael Corleone: We're both part of the same hypocrisy, senator, but never think it applies to my family.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Masquerade, dishonest, Hypocrisy
“I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Maternal, Threat
“[to Mary] I would burn in hell to keep you safe.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part III
Tagged: Safety, promises, Burn In Hell
“Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.

Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.

Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?”
— Michael Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: Power, Senator, President, Naive
“Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.”
— Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Tagged: old habits, Women, Children, careless
“I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Friends, enemies, Murder
“Michael Corleone: C'mon Frankie...my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth.

Frank Pentangeli: Your father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth...but he never trusted Hyman Roth!”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: Business, Trust
“Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?”
— Don Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part II
Tagged: disavowal
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