Quotes by Mario Puzo

About Mario Puzo:

Mario Gianluigi Puzo is known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (1969), which was later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974.
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There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Mario Puzo

A lawyer can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns.

Mario Puzo

Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for...

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Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.

Mario Puzo

He said to the cardinal, "I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred ...

Mario Puzo

Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other...

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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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Even the strongest man needs friends.

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I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Mario Puzo

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

Mario Puzo

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Mario Puzo

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

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Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.

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God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo

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

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Friendship and money: oil and water.

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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

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Author Bio

  • NameMario Puzo
  • DescriptionAmerican Novelist
  • BornOctober 15, 1920
  • DiedJuly 2, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Screenwriter; Writer
  • WorksThe Godfather
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award