Oyster Shell Quotes
- If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan
- Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner… — Marcel Proust
- 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 primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the… — Rumi
- We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much… — Sarah Waters
- Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend.… — Rumi