Michael Corleone – Character Quotes

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.

Only don't tell me you're innocent... because it insults my intelligence.

I would burn in Hell to keep you safe.

When they come, they'll come at what you love.

— All right, you shot them both. Now what do you do?
— Sit down, finish my dinner.

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.

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

Friendship and money... Oil and water...

One thing I learned from Pop... was to try to think as people around you think. On that basis, anything is possible.

— Mike! You don't come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene like that!
— Fredo. You're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone... against the family again... ever.

Power wears out those who don't have it.

All my life I've kept trying to go up in society. To where everything higher up was legal, straight... But the higher I go, the more crooked it becomes. Where the hell does it end?

My name is Michael Corleone. There are people who would pay a lot of money for that information. But then your daughter would lose a father... instead of gaining a husband.

The only wealth in this world is children. More than all the money and power on Earth. You are my treasure.

My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me, «Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer».