Mario Puzo: Man

Mario Puzo was American Novelist. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“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

“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”

Mario Puzo book The Last Don

Source: The Last Don

“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

“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'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”

“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”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone”

“Any man can turn traitor.”

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

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather