The Godfather

Godfather I

Don Corleone: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

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Calo: In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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Sonny: Hey, listen, I want somebody good - and I mean very good - to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that toilet with just his dick in his hands, alright?

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Don Corleone: It's an old habit. I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless but not men.

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Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch. Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is: Johnny Fontane will never get that movie. I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!
Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish.
Jack Woltz: Well, lemme tell ya something, my Kraut-Mick friend!

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Don Corleone: Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

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Sonny: What the hell is this?
Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

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Michael: Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.

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Don Corleone: Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could've out-fought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

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Don Corleone: I never thought you were a bad consiglieri, Tom. I thought Santino was a bad don, rest in peace.

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Don Corleone: What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.

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Don Corleone: Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me.

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Kay Adams: Michael, is it true?
Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.
Kay Adams: Is it true?
Michael Corleone: Don't ask me about my business.
Kay Adams: No.
Michael Corleone: [slams his hand on the desk] Enough! Alright. This one time, this one time I'll let you ask me about my affairs...
Kay Adams: Is it true? Is it?
Michael Corleone: No.

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Peter Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

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Clemenza: All right, you just shot 'em both. Now what do you do?
Michael: Sit down and finish my dinner.

Godfather II

Title Card: The godfather was born Vito Andolini, in the town of Corleone in Sicily. In 1901 his father was murdered for an insult to the local Mafia chieftain. His older brother Paolo swore revenge and disappeared into the hills, leaving Vito, the only male heir, to stand with his mother at the funeral. He was nine years old.

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Vito Corleone: I make him an offer he don't refuse.

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Michael Corleone: I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.

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Michael Corleone: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

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

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

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Fredo Corleone: I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael Corleone: That's the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo Corleone: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!

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Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?

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Fredo Corleone: Uno... por favor...
Fredo Corleone [to Michael] : How do you say "banana daiquiri"?
Michael Corleone: "Banana daiquiri."

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Don Ciccio: I see you took the name of the town. What was your father's name?
Vito Corleone: Antonio Andolini.
Don Ciccio: You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you
Vito Corleone: My father's name was Antonio Andolini... and this is for you.
[stabs him]

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Michael Corleone: He was stupid. I was lucky. I will visit him soon.

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Michael: Was it a boy?
Tom Hagen: Mikey, after three and a half months...
Michael: WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER ANY MORE? WAS IT A BOY?

Godfather III

Michael Corleone: Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.

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Michael Corleone: If someone is going around this city saying, "Fuck Michael Corleone," what do we do with a piece of shit like that? He's a fuckin' dog.
Joey Zasa: Yes, it's true. If someone were to say such a thing, they would not be a friend. They would be a dog.

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Michael Corleone: Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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Michael Corleone: Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

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Michael Corleone: I feel... I'm getting wiser now.
Kay Corleone: The sicker you get, the wiser you get, huh?
Michael Corleone: When I'm dead, I'm gonna be really smart.

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Michael Corleone: Joey Zasa's a pazzo!

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Michael Corleone: Italian politics have had these men for centuries. They are the true Mafia.

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Michael Corleone: Nephew, from this moment on, call yourself Vincent Corleone.