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.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

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!

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.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

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

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

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

Only the prophets see the obvious.

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

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

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

Saturday is an illusion.

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

Unanimity is always stupid.

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

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.