I never saw Portsmouth by day.

Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.

— Harry Redknapp

Growing up a lot of my friends were Portsmouth fans, but that's the way football goes and that's the career path that I chose.

— James Ward-Prowse

Younes Kaboul is a vital clog in the Portsmouth engine

— Bobby Gould

I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions.

— Benni McCarthy

To live in Portsmouth without possessing a family portrait done by Copley is like living in Boston without having an ancestor in the old…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away

— Jimmy Greaves

To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an…

— Herman Melville

I was chancellor of Portsmouth University.

— Sheila Hancock

If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach,…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When I left Portsmouth, I vowed to only work for people I liked.

— Tony Adams

David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

— Paul Merson

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

— Gertrude B. Elion

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

— M. Scott Peck

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw…

— Leo Tolstoy