Mario Puzo Quotes - Page 3

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Tell my father I wish to be his son.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

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.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.

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

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

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

I will make you an offer you cannot refuse

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

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

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.

‎"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.

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

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.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

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

She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.