Life Quote by Bibiana Krall

“Describing Ostend oysters: "small and rich, looking like little ears enfolded in shells, and melting between the palate and the tongue like salted sweets.”

— Guy de Maupassant

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of…

— Eleanor Clark

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

— Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…

— Victoria Finlay

“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

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy…

— Anonymous

The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows…

— M. F. K. Fisher

An oyster may be crossed in love.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to…

— Beth Hoffman

I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely…

— Mark Kurlansky