Mario Puzo quotes

„Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.“

—  Mario Puzo

„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, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

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

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Variant: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
Source: The Godfather

„Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Variant: Revenge is a dish which taste best when served cold.
Source: The Godfather

„A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„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, book Fools Die

Source: Fools Die

„A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Variant: A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man
Source: The Godfather

„The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Variant: Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks."

-Don Vito Corleone
Source: The Godfather

„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.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„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.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

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

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.“

—  Mario Puzo

„What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.“

—  Mario Puzo, book The Last Don

Source: The Last Don

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

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„Never let anyone know what you are thinking.“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

„Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!“

—  Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Source: The Godfather