Conditions Quote by Edward Lear

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away,…

— Ernest Hemingway

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

— Woody Allen

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

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

— Roy Blount, Jr

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!

— Bhartrhari

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

— Edward Lear

“The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“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

I live absolutely like an oyster.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The stranded oysters are popping open in the warmth. Tucked in like narcoleptic babies in the pluff mud, they snooze their existence away. Exuding…

— Bibiana Krall

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick