Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of…

— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in…

— Mariana van Zeller

“A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa. 'But before…

— Henry Kuttner

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

— Edward Hirsch

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I…

— Sebastian Arcelus

“Fortunately she stopped the servants before the platters of cold meats left the house, sending them back to the kitchen where she had the…

— Anonymous

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause…

— Pascal Mercier

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal…

— Eric Dier

My father is Portuguese, and in Portugal, it is traditional to take your mother's maiden name as a middle name. My mum is called…

— Lucy Bronze

I've come to find that I do think it is actually healthy for our relationship that I don't speak that much Portuguese because she…

— Matthew McConaughey

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Dorme, dorme, meu menino Dorme no Mar dos Sargaços Que mais vale o mar a pino Que as serpentes nos meus braços.”

— Anonymous

“Portuguese cake-making”

— Lizzie Collingham

Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

— Mary McCarthy