Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

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

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

Never piss off a gangster.

Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the scene. What more could you want with a gangster? He looked the part. They call it gangster chic. He dressed like the 'Reservoir Dogs' - black suit, white shirt, skinny black tie. You know, he had the whole look down. And the big shades, of course.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Greetings and death to our enemies.

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

As for these speculators I wish every one of them would have his devilish head shot off.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

I'll be your number one with a bullet.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

Wish all my corpses would do that.

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.