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Mario Puzo Quotes | Quotes said by Mario Puzo

  • Mario Puzo Quote #1

    ?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.


  • Mario Puzo Quote #2

    A lawyer can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #3

    A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #4

    Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #5

    And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #6

    But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made. After all, are we or are we not better men than those pezzonovanti who have killed countless millions of men in our lifetimes?

  • Mario Puzo Quote #7

    Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are people who take delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste. Speaking for humanity in general, the poor accept charity with a shame and loss of self-respect that is truly pitiful.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #8

    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.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #9

    Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them

  • Mario Puzo Quote #10

    Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #11

    Friendship and money: oil and water.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    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

  • Mario Puzo Quote #14

    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

  • Mario Puzo Quote #15

    He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #16

    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.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #17

    He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive

  • Mario Puzo Quote #18

    I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #19

    I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #20

    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.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #23

    Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #24

    Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #25

    Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #26

    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 Quote #27

    Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #28

    Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,
    your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  • Mario Puzo Quote #29

    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.

  • Mario Puzo Quote #30

    The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

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