Bad luck Quote by Nenia Campbell

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen.”

— Trebor Healey

“Oysters are the usual opening to a winter breakfast. Indeed, they are almost indispensable.”

— Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière

“He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters.”

— James VI & I

“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

“You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy…

— Anonymous

“I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I always thought it was remarkable that the oyster coats its enemy not only in something beautiful, but a part of itself.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.”

— Alex Flinn

“Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”

— Padgett Powell

“... the dame stretches, revealing the fact that she sleeps in much the same state as her oysters.”

— C. S. Boag

“Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning’s climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters.”

— Suzanne Collins