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"There are lots of hats, you idiot!"
Vasco Santana in A Canção de Lisboa
"Rather Queen for a day than duchess for a lifetime"
Luísa de Gusmão, queen-consort of John IV
"O salted sea, how much of your salt are Portuguese tears?"
Fernando Pessoa, poet
"Dantas might know grammar, might know syntax, might know medicine, might know how to cook suppers for cardinals, he might know everything except to write which is the only thing he does"
Almada Negreiros, writer and painter
"Times change, wills change"
Luís Vaz de Camões, national poet
"It's roses, my lord"
Elizabeth of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, to King Denis of Portugal when he was about to discover she was feeding the poor with the palace's food
"I will resign to prevent the country from falling into a political swamp."
António Guterres, former Prime Minister
"Help! They are killing the Master!"
Álvaro Pais, conspirator during the 1383-1385 crisis, before the Grand Master of the Order of Aviz (future John I of Portugal) killed the Count of Andeiro
"God wants, the Man thinks, the Work is born."
Fernando Pessoa, poet
"One who has no dog, hunts with a cat."
Portuguese proverb
"The Church says the Earth is flat, but I know it is round, because I saw its shadow on the Moon, and I believe more in a shadow than in the Church"
Ferdinand Magellan, explorer
"Portugal is a very beautiful country, the problem is the Portuguese."
Eça de Queiroz, writer
"One is for the revolution or for the reaction! There's no third way..."
Vasco Gonçalves, politician
"Fame, for me, is that thing that allows me to multiply my number of friends"
Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitar player
"Communism fundamentally distinguishes itself from fascism because it was the first"
Vergílio Ferreira, writer
"Lies have short legs"
Portuguese proverb
"The flies change but the shit is all the same"
Brito Camacho, politician of the Portuguese First Republic
"We gave the Brazilians, the land, people and language, and we are the ones with an accent?!"
Raúl Solnado, actor and commedian
"I'm not a total atheist, everyday I try to find a sign of God, but unfortunately I can't find any."
José Saramago, novelist
"To Angola! Quickly and strongly!"
António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator, when the independence war in Angola started
"Be plural like the universe!"
Fernando Pessoa, poet
"Grenades? No... This is only smoke. Be calm, the people is serene! The people is serene!"
José Pinheiro de Azevedo, former-Prime Minister of Portugal, in front of a multitude of supporters after tumults started because of explosions caused by detractors
"The worst of all crimes is to produce bad wine, bottle it and serve it to ones friends"
Aquilino Ribeiro, romantic writer
"Obviously, I'll dismiss him."
Humberto Delgado, opposition presidential candidate, about dictator António de Oliveira Salazar
"The readers are like whores, they love us and then they leave us."
António Lobo Antunes, novelist
"Pressure? Pressure is millions of parents around the world with no money to feed their children."
José Mourinho, football manager
"Love is fire that burns unseen"
Luís de Camões, Portugal's national poet
"I never make mistakes and I rarely have doubts."
Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal
