Godfather The Famous Quotes
Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
"Fabrizio In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Tessio It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
"Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day."
"Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit."
"Don Corleone What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you."
"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today."
Godfather The Quotations
It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
F M Young
"And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind."
Thomas a Kempis
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stephenson
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
"You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything."
Robert Killinger
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Mark Twain
"If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches."
Carolyn Kenmore
Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo