Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very “poetry of his soul”.Well,it’s not easy but men do it all the time.
Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
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.
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
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn’t have to ask me to help. – Don Corleone
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.
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.
A man’s primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.
I’ll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.
A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,
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
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can’t be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.
Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.
”But you’re the toughest son of a b!&€# i’ve ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
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.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.