Nelson Rodrigues Quotes

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

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

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

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

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.

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

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

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

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

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

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

Money buys everything, even true love.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

Unanimity is always stupid.

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

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

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!

Only the prophets see the obvious.

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

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

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