Godfather Tom Hagen Quotes

#1. It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Francis Atterbury

#2. Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.

Vincent Starrett

#3. In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

Hans Frank

#4. What is the point of life except to gather more experiences and to understand yourself?

Jaym Gates

#5. 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

#6. I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

Colton Haynes

#7. I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

Alexis Stewart

#8. Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities.

Anonymous

#9. Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.
Hagen: Somebody like me.
Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Hagen: I'm German-American.
Michael: To them that's Irish.

Mario Puzo

#10. It's as if you had a story together and it was never finished. You never got to know the ending because a whole fucking chunk of the pages have been torn out of the back of the book. And it's so unfair." The

Jay Northcote

#11. Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Maureen Lipman

#12. Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Rajneesh

#13. Never mind what I say, Robert! I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

John Kricfalusi

#15. That's one of the central challenges we face - how to stay true to events and compress the fundamentals.

Paul Greengrass