If you take a shot every time something ironic is said in Mario Puzo's script of The Godfather you'll be drunk before Michael returns from Italy.
The Don tells his Consigliere Tom Hagen to put Clemenza on the Bonasera revenge job, but with the understanding that he get "reliable people" who "aren't gonna' get carried away."
By adding, "I mean, we're not murderers," Don Vito implies a moral boundary between family business and frivolous emotionalism.
By sniffing a flower as he says it just makes it awesome.
