Nelson Rodrigues Quotes & Sayings

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf. — Nelson Rodrigues

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy. — Nelson Rodrigues

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

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

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

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

The keyhole is my lens as a writer. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

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

If life turns her back on you, grab her ass. — Nelson Rodrigues

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture. — Nelson Rodrigues

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

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

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal. — Nelson Rodrigues

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

Love is impossible without bite marks. — Nelson Rodrigues

Only the prophets see the obvious. — Nelson Rodrigues

Every shy person is a potential sex offender. — Nelson Rodrigues

Saturday is an illusion. — Nelson Rodrigues

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street. — Nelson Rodrigues

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. — Nelson Rodrigues

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

I only believe in those who can still blush. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

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

Money buys everything, even true love. — Nelson Rodrigues

Unanimity is always stupid. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil. — Nelson Rodrigues