Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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.
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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.