Quotes About Betrayal

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

Any man can turn traitor.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

The gunman said, Fabrizzio,Michael Corleone sends you his regards.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

The truth now. He was disappointed in human beings. He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame. The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters

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.

treachery can't be forgiven.

They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal.

That night a bomb exploded in the Corleone Family mall in Long Beach, thrown from a car that pulled up to the chain, then roared away. That night also two button men of the Corleone Family were killed as they peaceably ate their dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. The Five Families War of 1946 had begun.

His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma.

I would trust you with my whole fortune," he told the president. "I would trust you with my life and the welfare of my children. It is inconceivable to me that you would ever trick me or otherwise betray me. My whole world, all my faith in my judgment of human character would collapse.

Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you're thinking again. Go on.

he sells the souls in his keeping to the devil.

Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man.

But della Rovere frowned and said, Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.

He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Ah, Sicily, Sicily, he thought, you destroy your best and bring them to dust.

Don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again.

Michael stood up and yelled, "You lousy bastard, he's my father. I'm not supposed to help him? I can help. I don't have to go out and kill people but I can help. Stop treating me like a kid brother.

My friend," he said, "people like you and me meet face to face and kill each other. Our enemies are behind us." He let his hand fall. "Our enemies are behind us," he repeated bitterly, "and commit the crimes for which we die.

How terrible man had been to his fellow man could be measured by the great exodus from what seemed to be a Garden of Eden.

Pueden ustedes reírse de mí, cuando les dé la espalda.