Frasi di Mario Puzo

“La vita è una vicenda comica e non vi è nulla di più divertente dell'amore che vive nel tempo.”

Origine: I folli muoiono, p. 5

“Io sono come una x in una equazione indeterminata”

Origine: I folli muoiono, p. 6

“Nessuno dovrebbe essere un imbroglione, a meno che realmente non abbia bisogno di soldi.”

I folli muoiono

“Quello che identifichiamo come la nostra sensibilità è solo la più alta evoluzione del terrore di un agnello al suo sacrificio. Soffriamo per nulla. Il nostro desiderio di morte è la nostra sola vera tragedia.”

Origine: I folli muoiono, p. 7

“Un avvocato con la sua valigetta può rubare più di mille uomini armati di pistole.”

Merlyn, capitolo LV
I folli muoiono

“Le donne dolci hanno sempre teso degli agguati agli uomini: nella culla, in cucina, in camera da letto. E sulle tombe dei figli, il luogo migliore per non cercare una scusa onde implorare pietà.”

Don Corleone, Il padrino (1969), libro I, capitolo I

“In confronto alla morte, l'amore è una faticosa faccenda infantile, sebbene gli uomini credano più nell'amore che nella morte.”

Origine: I folli muoiono, p. 8

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

Origine: I folli muoiono, p. 6

Mario Puzo: Frasi in inglese

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Variante: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
Origine: The Godfather

“Great men are not born great, they grow great…”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

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

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Variante: Revenge is a dish which taste best when served cold.
Origine: The Godfather

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

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

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

-Don Vito Corleone
Origine: The Godfather

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.”

“Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”

Mario Puzo libro The Last Don

Origine: The Last Don

“Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

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

Mario Puzo libro I folli muoiono

Origine: Fools Die

“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.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Variante: A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man
Origine: The Godfather

“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.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
…
Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.”

“Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.”

Mario Puzo libro The Last Don

Origine: The Last Don

“Never let anyone know what you are thinking.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

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

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Power isn't everything… its the only thing.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

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

Mario Puzo libro The Last Don

Origine: The Last Don

“Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”

“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”

“We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”