My nation is the Portuguese language,’ he declared through…

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

My homeland is the portuguese language.

— Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best…

— Jose Aldo

That Portuguese language is so beautiful when it is sung and even spoken.

— B. J. Thomas

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global…

— Pedro Passos Coelho

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

— Fernando Pessoa

Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

— Fernando Pessoa

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