Conditions Quote by M. F. K. Fisher

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

— William Penn

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

— Henry David Thoreau

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…

— Victoria Finlay

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be…

— Henry Fielding

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

— Paul Neilan

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl…

— Anonymous

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in…

— Ovid

“Which came first, the mollusc or the shell?”

— Helen Scales

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

— Dave Barry

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

— Henry Van Dyke

“Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the inhabitant and…

— Rebecca Solnit