
“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”
Variant: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
Source: The Godfather
“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”
“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”
Source: Gone with the Wind
“You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner.”
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 17
Misattributed
“Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering.”
Bittersweet, Chapter 3 at p. 56
1981, as recounted by former President C. V. Devan Nair, as quoted in Beyond suspicion?: the Singapore judiciary, Francis T. Seow http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90321dn.htm
1980s
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 13
from a "In the know" section on Manchester United
Quotes from His time at Foxsports
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.