Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Nelson Rodrigues

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian novelist Nelson Rodrigues.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Nelson Rodrigues

Nelson Falcão Rodrigues was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialogue. He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright.

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 envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.
Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones. — © Nelson Rodrigues
Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.
The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
I only believe in those who can still blush.
Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.
To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.
The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
Money buys everything, even true love.
The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
Saturday is an illusion.
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.
The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.
If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.
In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
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!
Only the prophets see the obvious.
Unanimity is always stupid. — © Nelson Rodrigues
Unanimity is always stupid.
Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.
Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
Every shy person is a potential sex offender.
Love is impossible without bite marks.
Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.
In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.
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