Favorite Godfather Quotes

Here is a video of the Best Godfather Quotes from youtube and here are the quotes that are in there, with an asterisk by our favorites.

*What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? ~ Vito Corleone (Just a great one to have in your repertoire)

Someday, and that day may never come, I’m gonna call upon you to do a service for me. ~ Vito Corleone

I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse. ~ Vito Corleone (Totally overused)

Never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking again. ~ Vito Corleone

I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should listen. ~ Vito Corleone

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

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I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we made here today. ~ Vito Corleone

There wasn’t enough time, Michael, wasn’t enough time. ~ Vito Corleone

*Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. ~ Clemenza

I want no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a meeting with the heads of the Five Families. This war stops now. ~ Vito Corleone

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

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart… you broke my heart. ~ Michael Corleone

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Taken care of me? You’re my kid brother and you take care of me? You ever think about that, huh? You ever once think about that? “Send Fredo off to do this, send Fredo off to do that. Let Fredo take care of some Mickey Mouse nightclub somewhere. Send Fredo to pick somebody up at the airport.” I’m your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over. ~ 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! ~ Fredo Corleone (favorite favorite!)

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

And here are some more favorites that didn’t make the video:

I don’t know what to do, Godfather. ~ Johnny Fontane

*You can act like a man! ~ Vito Corleone

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

*Fredo, you’re nothing to me now. ~ Michael Corleone (keep handy for betrayals)

Michael, we’re bigger than U.S. Steel. ~ Hyman Roth

*I’m going in to take a nap. When I wake, if the money’s on the table, I’ll know I have a partner. If it isn’t, I’ll know I don’t. ~ Hyman Roth (keep handy for deals or debts)

*You should let me wet my beak a little. ~ Don Fanucci (hustling Vito Corleone for protection money)

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I loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919. ~ Hyman Roth

*This is the business we’ve chosen. ~ Hyman Roth

Mr Corleone is a man who insists on hearing bad news at once. ~ Tom Hagen

Only don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry. ~ Michael Corleone

No Sicilian can ever refuse a request on his daughter’s wedding day. ~ Tom Hagen