The Godfather Quotes
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Balzac
"You acted like the worst kind of degenerates."
"But because of your youth, your clean records, because of your fine families, and because the law in its majesty does not seek vengeance, I hereby sentence you to three years' confinement to the penitentiary. Sentence to be suspended."
"You will weep as I have wept– I will make you weep as your children make me weep."
"For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone."
"Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family."
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
"Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn't have to ask me to help."
"You found America a paradise. You had a good trade, you made a good living, you thought the world a harmless place where you could take your pleasure as you willed."
"No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable."
"I believe in friendship and I am willing to show my friendship first."
"It's very important we get to talk to Michael Corleone."
"Mike wouldn't do anything like that. He never had anything to do with his family."
"Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."
"You forget about Mikey, he no the man for you anymore."
"You a very nice girl, you gotta nice legs, but you no gotta much brains."
"My father is a businessman trying to provide for his wife and children and those friends he might need someday in a time of trouble."
"I believe in my family. I believe in you and the family we may have."
"Governments really don't do much for their people, that's what it comes down to."
"I want you to understand that whatever else he is, he's not irresponsible, or at least not in the society which he has created."
"You know, I used to tell people, 'Don't eat too 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."
"I became a surgeon finally. I've got the good hands, as ballplayers say."
"I started to do abortions. Nice and easy, everybody happy, like washing the dishes and leaving a clean sink."
"I don't believe that a two-month fetus is a human being so no problems there."
"Giving good advice again which is being ignored just like in the old days."
"Hell, I couldn't let them do that to a fellow Sicilian."
"Listen, I would never have stepped into the picture if I hadn't checked everything out and saw what a raw deal you got."
"Your father-in-law says you're the finest fellow in the world. That's rare."
"There's no sense getting you out of jail and then just leaving you high and dry."
"Forget about that supervision and just so the banks won't get choosy I'll have your yellow sheet pulled."
"Come on and eat with me and my family. My father said he'd like to meet you."
"You're a fine fellow. My son Michael here, I've been teaching him the olive business, I'm getting old, I want to retire."
"The Corleone Family valued him, society did not."
"There are men in this world," he said, "who go about demanding to be killed."
"The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him."
"He had found his place in the world, Michael Corelone had placed his absolute trust in him, and today he would not fail that trust."