Mario Puzo Best Quotes

#1. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

Francis Ford Coppola

#2. Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.

Mario Puzo

#3. Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.

Mario Puzo

#4. Genius had its rewards.

Mario Puzo

#5. Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.

Mario Puzo

#6. People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.

Mario Puzo

#7. In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

Mario Puzo

#8. Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters.

Mario Puzo

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

Mario Puzo

#10. I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.

Peter Benchley

#11. A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?

Mario Puzo

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

Mario Puzo