Aesthetic Quote by Maynard Amerine

As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.

— Mark Kurlansky

You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters.

— Grace Jones

Has every oyster a different taste?

— Errol Flynn

Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be…

— Michael Broadbent

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste…

— Hannah Arendt

I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.

— Kevin Dillon

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

— Jim Himes

“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

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to…

— Tim Crane

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

— Steve Scalise