All Quotes

"John Cazale – Fredo Corleone"

"Richard Castellano – Pete Clemenza"

"John Marley – Jack Woltz"

"Al Lettieri – Virgil "the Turk" Solozzo"

"[to Rocco Lampone, after Rocco kills Paulie Gatto] Leave the gun. Take the Cannoli."

"Marlon Brando – Don Vito Corleone"

"Al Pacino – Michael Corleone"

"James Caan – Santino "Sonny" Corleone"

"Robert Duvall – Tom Hagen"

"Diane Keaton – Kay Adams"

"Abe Vigoda – Sal Tessio"

"Sterling Hayden – Captain McCluskey"

"Talia Shire – Connie Corleone Rizzi"

"[to Bonasera] I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way. [looks in anguish at Sonny's bullet-ridden body] Look how they massacred my boy!"

"I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men."

"Alex Rocco – Moe Greene"

"Richard Conte – Don Emilio Barzini"

"Louis Guss – Don Joe Zaluchi"

"Al Martino – Johnny Fontane"

"Lenny Montana – Luca Brasi"

"Victor Rendina – Philip Tattaglia"

"One of my favorite books-and I emphasize the word book here because I'm not talking about the movie-is The Godfather, because that book took me to another world-not necessarily a real world, but it did make good guys of some rather unpleasant people. It did take me to another world."

"By anguish which made pale the sun, I hear Him charge his saints that none Among his creatures anywhere Blaspheme against Him with despair, However darkly days go on."

"Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown! No mortal grief deserves that crown. O supreme Love, chief misery, The sharp regalia are for Thee Whose days eternally go on!For us, — whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done, Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on."

"Whatever's lost, it first was won; We will not struggle nor impugn. Perhaps the cup was broken here, That Heaven's new wine might show more clear. I praise Thee while my days go on."

"I praise Thee while my days go on; I love Thee while my days go on: Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost, With emptied arms and treasure lost, I thank Thee while my days go on.And having in thy life-depth thrown Being and suffering (which are one), As a child drops his pebble small Down some deep well, and hears it fall Smiling — so I. THY DAYS GO ON."

"Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models...Elizabeth Barrett Browning admired the work of George Sand and Mme. de Staël, while her work, in its turn, was an inspiration to Emily Dickinson.,,all of the American nineteenth-century woman's rights leaders considered Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh an inspiration. The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors."

"Anger has always played a role in poetry...You can find powerful anger in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems on slavery and child labor. In her anti-slavery poem “A Curse for a Nation,” she has an angel explaining that “A curse from the lips of womanhood / Is very salt, and bitter, and good.” Barrett Browning was roundly condemned in her own time for writing about politics."

"Life Loves/to change, wrote poet John Masefield,/in the cobbled town of Ledbury, Herefordshire,/Elizabeth Barrett Browning's town too./.../I felt drunk on general coziness.../thinking of Elizabeth,/whose "father never spoke to her again," once she/had a child (what was his problem?),/and Masefield, who suffered intense seasickness/yet wrote about going down to the sea/as if it were his favorite act/.../Life loves to change-but some of us want to/stay."

"Emily Dickinson was always stirred by the existences of women like George Eliot or Elizabeth Barrett, who possessed strength of mind, articulateness, and energy. (She once characterized Elizabeth Fry and Florence Nightingale as "holy"-one suspects she merely meant, "great.")"

"The Xanthians, suspecting my kindness, have made their country the grave of their despair; the Patareans, trusting themselves to me, enjoy in all points their former liberty; it is in your power to choose the judgment of the Patareans or the fortune of the Xanthians."

"Your councils be long, your doings be slow, consider the end."

"Yes, indeed, we must fly, but not with our feet, but with our hands.."

"Farewell, good Strato. — Caesar now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."

"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!"

"More people worship the rising than the setting sun."

"To sail is necessary, to live is not."

"Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!"

"O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome: And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude."

"And besides, he was what? 25? He couldn't stand for a Praetorship even if he wanted to. But like I say, I don't care. I'm fine with it. I'm happy for him. Hooray for Pompey. Pompey the Great."

"Jerry Seinfeld – Jerry"

"Jason Alexander – George Costanza"

"Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Elaine Benes"

"Michael Richards – Cosmo Kramer"

"Wayne Knight – Newman"

"Estelle Harris – Estelle Costanza"

"Jerry Stiller – Frank Costanza"

"Liz Sheridan – Helen Seinfeld"

"Barney Martin – Morty Seinfeld"

"Patrick Warburton – David Puddy"