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“You can act like a man!” – Don Vito Corleone(Wikipedia)
“I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense” – Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo
“She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature”
“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”
“Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.”
“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, “Life is so beautiful.”
… Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, “Life is so beautiful,” then nothing else is important.”
“The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.”
“None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it’s too hard a life.”
“A man in my position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous!”
“treachery can’t be forgiven.”
“Every man has one destiny.”
“What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.”
“He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.”
“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. Since Johnny’s father died, Mr. Corleone feels his responsibility even more deeply. As for trying you again, Mr. Corleone is much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the first.”
“The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.”
“Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain.”
“The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.”
“Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.”
“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold”
“He had been a tough teenager in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.”
“Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life,” he used to say. “Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.”
“But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.”
“The meeting would be safe as a wedding.”
“Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
“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. He would follow his father. He would care for his children, his family, his world. But his children would grow in a different world. They would be doctors, artists, scientists. Governors. Presidents. Anything at all. He would see to it that they joined the general family of humanity, but he, as a powerful and prudent parent, would most certainly keep a wary eye on that general family.”
“All of these men were good listeners, patient men. They had one other thing in common. They were those rarities, men who had refused to accept the rule of organized society, men who refused the dominion of other men. There was no force, no mortal man who could bend them to their will unless they wished it. They were men who guarded their free will with wiles and murder. Their wills could be subverted only by death. Or the utmost reasonableness.”
“Don Corleone was too weak to speak much but he wished to listen and exercise veto powers.”
“The premium put on virginity by socially primitive people. It was a period of sensuality that he had never before experienced, a sensuality mixed with a feeling of masculine power.”
“It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat.”
“Used to tell people, ‘Don’t eat so much or you’ll die, don’t smoke so much or you’ll die, don’t work so much or you’ll die, don’t drink so much or you’ll die.’ Nobody listens. You know why? Because I don’t say, ‘You will die tomorrow.”
“Kay could see how Michael stood to receive their homage. He reminded her of statues in Rome, statues of those Roman emperors of antiquity, who, by divine right, held the power of life and death over their fellow men. One hand was on his hip, the profile of his face showed a cold proud power, his body was carelessly, arrogantly at ease, weight resting on one foot slightly behind the other. The caporegimes stood before him. In that moment Kay knew that everything Connie had accused Michael of was true. She went back into the kitchen and wept.”
“Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.”
“This country has been good to me.”
“Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose.”
“Have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.”
“Never get angry,” the Don had instructed. “Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
Fredo Corleone(Wikipedia): Mike! You don’t come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene like that!
Michael Corleone: Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever!
“You goddamn guineas you really make me laugh” – Moe Greene
“Only don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry” – Michael Corleone
“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns” – Calò
“I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should listen.” – Don Vito Corleone
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