Oyster Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“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

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…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to…

— Ambrose Bierce

I heard oysters are an aphrodisiac, which I can't stand, but I think anything you eat with your hands is cute. I don't know.

— Emily Osment

“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

“To be a pearl maker, your oyster needs a good strong shell to protect you from a hundred million irritants in your environment. Your…

— Annie Kagan

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

— Marcus Licinius Crassus

“Do you know how a pearl comes to be?" "Oysters make them, from a bit of sand." "Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He…

— C.L. Wilson

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

“THE PEARL STARTS ITS LIFE AS A SPLINTER—something unwanted like a piece of shell or shard of dirt that accidentally lodges itself in an…

— Tarryn Fisher

“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

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray