The best Quotes about the Mafia

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

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

My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.

Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?

Look at what happened during Prohibition - a handful of poor, uneducated immigrants from Sicily became stronger than all the laws, courts, and police here in the States.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

In Italy, we have a saying, "Love rules without rules."

In Italy, you know you've found a truly authentic restaurant when they don't have an English menu. In India, it's when there are no utensils and you must eat with your hands.

The Azzurri, led by coach Roberto Mancini, played together with great team spirit and personality. After 50 years, the trophy returns to Italy.

They thought the trophy would stay in London, now it's going to Rome. Italy has schooled again.

Mrs Miggins: "Don't mind them Mr B, they're just being intellectual."
Blackadder: "There's nothing intellectual about wandering around Italy in a big shirt trying to get laid."

If Italy were Mona Lisa then Florence would be her smile.

The Italian Guardia di Finanza are like the lovechild of the IRS and the FBI. They live to hunt down lavoro nero.

The fun is over! Italy will start defending its own national interests.

Our public debt is totally out of control. We're dealing with growing poverty.

Lawyer, Italian... then broads must be endless!

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

The most stylish country in the world is Italy.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

Italy doesn't need something that is wrinkled, red and leaky, and smells like booze and narcotics. They've already got former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

One of my favorite things about Italy is how serious Italians take their coffee.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Italy - and that's practically the same thing.

He never asks a second favour when he's been refused the first.

I believe in America. America has made my fortune.

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

Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power.

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

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

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Alcohol is for people who can afford to lose a few brain-cells.

They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, we can do almost anything.

The police are either incompetent or corrupt. Or both.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

The American dream was more like a nightmare.

The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

When God made Sicily, he made an absolute paradise. And then, to balance it out, he made Sicilians.