Cooking Quote by Juvenal

“Why is it when I hear the phrase ‘trompe l’oeil’ I think of oysters” I heard her say once.”

— “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

— M. F. K. Fisher

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but…

— Elizabeth Montagu

“Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And Nerites told her what virginity was all about.He said that his sisters were all virgins before they coupled with the Gods, Dactyls &…

— Nicholas Chong

“To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the finest and subtlest and most pliable tools…

— Virginia Woolf

An oyster may be crossed in love.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who…

— Rebecca West

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

— John Heywood

Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.

— Frances Sargent Osgood

“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