Mario Puzo Quotes

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  • We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

  • Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

    The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

  • Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

  • In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

    "Fictional character: Calo". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.
  • Even the strongest man needs friends.

  • 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

  • It's just business nothing personal.

  • Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

  • I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

  • The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters

  • Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

  • Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

    Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing
  • Tell my father I wish to be his son.

    Mario Puzo (2012). “The Godfather”, p.471, Random House
  • Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

  • Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

    Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.62, Penguin
  • What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

  • He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

    1978 Fools Die, ch.2.
  • The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

  • 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 (2005). “The Godfather”, p.319, Penguin
  • Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.

  • Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

    "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
  • 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.

    Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.319, Penguin
  • Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

    Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing
  • 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 (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade
  • If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

    The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Power wears out those who do not have it.

    "Fictional character: Calo". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.
  • Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

  • We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

    "The Godfather".
  • Friendship and money: oil and water.

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