Michael Corleone Quotes

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

It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

Great men are not born great, they grow great.

Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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

The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes.

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart.

It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Women and children can be careless, but not men.

I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.

Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

I want you to rest well and in the morning, I want you to come to my house, and I want you to bring a friend – so that I can introduce you to a couple of mine!

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.

Michael Corleone Quotes part 2

I have always believed that politics was the only avenue for personal wealth.

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.

I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren’t.

Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me; ‘keep your friends close, but your enemies closer’.

Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn’t know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

I don’t want to kill everyone, Tom. Just my enemies.

You know, Michael, now that you’re so respectable, I think you’re more dangerous than you ever were.

My father taught me many things. [Sollozzo] Yes. I understand that. [Michael] He taught me, ‘Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.’

Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself.

The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes.

Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgment.

Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.

It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.

Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.

Don Corleone, you once said that the day would come when Tessio and me could form our own Family. Until today, I would never think of such a thing but now I must. Michael has all my respect but he never had any real family loyalty. Fredo is weak and stupid. He should have never been made boss of that Family.

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.

I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren’t.

This war stops now.

I want you to rest well and in the morning, I want you to come to my house, and I want you to bring a friend – so that I can introduce you to a couple of mine!

I have always believed that politics was the only avenue for personal wealth.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Great men are not born great, they grow great.