Oysters Quotes

131 Oysters quotes by 110 unique authors

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. — M.F.K. Fisher
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster. — Randall Jarrell
My taste includes both snails and oysters. — Marcus Licinius Crassus
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. — Nicolas Chamfort
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster. — Eleanor Clark
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a… — Leslie Poles Hartley
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that… — Leonardo da Vinci
I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for a ride and… — Taylor Kinney
I am a teller of stories...a weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather stand on my head. I know seven… — Anthony Minghella
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's… — Hector Hugh Munro
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked… — Charles Dickens
An oyster may be crossed in love. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next,… — Fred Rogers
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… — Pat Conroy
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. — Stephen King
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose?… — Ray Romano
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… — George Will
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential… — Jean-Paul Sartre
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the… — Ambrose Bierce

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