Nelson Rodrigues famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Soccer #Player #Balls
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Men #Finding Happiness #Essentials
Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Love Is #Ends
I only believe in those who can still blush.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Believe #Stills
If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Ass #Turns
Money buys everything, even true love.
-- Nelson Rodrigues
The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Ideas #Audience
I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Jesus #Jesus Christ #Censorship
Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Way #Individual #Milky Way
Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

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

#Immaturity #Adults #Flaws
Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

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

#Wise #Men #Paris
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Powerful #Stronger #Ovation
Saturday is an illusion.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Illusion #Saturday
Every shy person is a potential sex offender.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Sex #Shy #Persons
I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Envy #Stupidity
The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Pieces #Furniture #Bed
I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Angel
The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Lenses #Keyholes
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

#Fire #Faces #Another Day
Only the prophets see the obvious.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Prophet #Obvious
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Children #Men #Doe
Unanimity is always stupid.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Stupid
Love is impossible without bite marks.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Love Is #Impossible #Mark
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Pressure #Scoundrels #Collectives
Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Husband #Lasts #Should
To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Love Is #Faithful #Being Faithful
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Football #Balls #Blindness

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