Quote

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Al Capone

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Al Capone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 17
Died: 1947
Died: January 25
Brooklyn
New York
Sunday Albert
Scarface
Alphonse Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
Word
Power
Kind
Gun

More quotes by Al Capone

Image
Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.
Al Capone
Image
Now I know why tigers eat their young.
Al Capone
Image
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
Al Capone
Image
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
Al Capone
Image
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can't afford to let it in...We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses we must see that his mind remains healthy.
Al Capone
Image
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
Al Capone
Image
Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
Al Capone
Image
Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
Al Capone
Image
I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.
Al Capone
Image
It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
Al Capone
Image
Once in the racket you're always in it.
Al Capone
Image
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Al Capone
Image
We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?
Al Capone
Image
A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
Al Capone
Image
You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.
Al Capone
Image
Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
Al Capone
Image
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
Al Capone
Image
They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.
Al Capone
Image
This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone
Image
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Al Capone