The godfather Quotes

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

“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.”

“It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.”

“Leave the gun, take the cannoli--Clemenza to Rocco in the Godfather (1972)”

“I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.”

“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.”

“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.”

“At that moment Sonny noticed that the other car had not kept going but had parked a few feet ahead, still blocking his way. At that same moment his lateral vision caught sight of another man in the darkened tollbooth to his right. But he did not have time to think about that because two men came out of the car parked in front and walked toward him. The toll collector still had not appeared. And then in the fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone he knew he was a dead man. And in that moment his mind was lucid, drained of all violence, as if the hidden fear finally real and present had purified him.”

“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. 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. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.”

“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”