Oyster Quote by “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.”

— Nenia Campbell

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this…

— Lewis Carroll

“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

“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

“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that…

— Truman Capote

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

— Padgett Powell

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

— Tarryn Fisher

“And her mother still struggled in these white kitchens in town, humming sweet hymns, tiny, mild eyed and bent, her father still labored on…

— James Baldwin

“Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its…

— Tom Robbins

“Oysters oysters oysters split split split”

— N. V. Smith

“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