Oyster Quote by Ambrose Bierce

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its…

— Tom Robbins

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters.”

— James VI & I

“Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.”

— Beth Hoffman

“Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about…

— Anne Ursu

“The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen.”

— Trebor Healey

“Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.”

— Truth Devour

“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.”

— Alex Flinn

“Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”

— Padgett Powell

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

— George Berkeley

“Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast. Indeed, they are almost indispensable.”

— Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière