Breakfast Quote by Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

— Eleanor Clark

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

— Shirley Chisholm

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes…

— Sheila Ballantyne

I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

— Kenneth Tynan

So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?

— Billy Connolly

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the…

— Fred Wilson

“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it…

— Anonymous

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who…

— Rebecca West

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher