Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" Quotes Archives - Famous Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

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.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
—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"

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

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.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

Tell my father i wish to be his son.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

The man with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. a
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

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

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

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
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.
—Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"