Frasi di Mario Puzo pagina 2

“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

“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”

Origine: I folli muoiono, p. 6

Mario Puzo: Frasi in inglese

“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”

“Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“it's just business nothing personal…”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family…”

“Life is like a box of Hand grenades, You never know what will blow you to kingdom come”

“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”

Mario Puzo libro The Last Don

Origine: The Last Don

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.”

Mario Puzo libro I folli muoiono

Origine: Fools Die

“Power wears out those who do not have it.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”

“‎"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen. You never let anybody get near you. You never let anybody know what you really think.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone”

Mario Puzo libro I folli muoiono

Origine: Fools Die

“Any man can turn traitor.”

“Tell my father I wish to be his son.”

“And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.”

“I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“When they come… they come at what you love.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not"-Don Corleone”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns…”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Origine: The Godfather

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”