Nelson Rodrigues quotes:

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

Saturday is an illusion.

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

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.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

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

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

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

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.

Unanimity is always stupid.

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

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

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

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

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

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

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

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.

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

Money buys everything, even true love.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

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