Portuguese Quotes
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Portuguese Quotes & Sayings
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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
— Mark Twain
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
— Edward Hirsch
In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese
— Fernando Sabino
Portuguese cake-making
— Lizzie Collingham
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
— Patrick O'Brian
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
— Fernando Pessoa
There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
— H.L. Mencken
One hundred years ago, the Blessed Virgin revealed a mysterious prophecy to three Portuguese shepherd children.
— Peter J. Tanous
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
— Francesca Annis
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
— Clarence Nash
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman:the endless sea is Portuguese — Fernando Pessoa
Romania are more Portuguese than German.
— Barry Venison
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
— Emeril Lagasse
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese!
— Duke Of Wellington
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
— Fred D'Aguiar
My homeland is the portuguese language.
— Fernando Pessoa
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.
— Ambrose Bierce
A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.
— Daniela Ruah
Oi, meu amor." She said. Hello, my love, in Portuguese.
— Callie Anderson
Visits always give pleasureif not the arrival, the departure. — Portuguese Proverb
If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.
— Neil Warnock
Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
— Emeril Lagasse
Apparently, both the Portuguese and Spanish found a way out of their crisis. It's called cheating on tourists!
— Daniel Marques
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
— Francesca Annis
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Roman Empire, Vikings, British, Spanish, Portuguese,... all raped women, but it always seems worse when done to us.
— Daniel Marques
Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.
— Antonio De Oliveira Salazar
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'
— Faye Dunaway
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
— Nelly Furtado
You can choose where your feet take you, man. That's Dominic again, who's like my own little Jiminy Cricket, Portuguese fisherman style.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
— Kiran Ahluwalia
Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa.
— Frederick Forsyth
