Nelson Rodrigues Quotes

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Money buys everything, even true love.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

Unanimity is always stupid.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

Saturday is an illusion.

Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!

Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.