Don Vito Corleone Quotes

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

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.

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

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.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

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.

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man.

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

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

Great men are not born great, they grow great.

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

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.