Oyster Quotes

100 Oyster quotes by 83 unique authors

The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted… — Russell Hoban
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster! — Bhartrhari
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an… — William Shakespeare
I live absolutely like an oyster. — Gustave Flaubert
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of… — Horace Mann
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. — Edward Lear
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. — Edward Lear
Has every oyster a different taste? — Errol Flynn
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill… — Anatole France
So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great,… — Tim Vine
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional… — Carol Ann Duffy
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. — David Hume
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. — Zora Neale Hurston
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. — Jonathan Swift
Itâ€™s a pity if someoneâ€¦ has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies… — Leonard Cohen
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. — Oscar Wilde

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