Quote by Tom Robbins

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

— Padgett Powell

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!”

— Ambrose Bierce

“The most beautiful pearls are not found in oysters, but in enlightened souls.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“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

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

— Trebor Healey

“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

“An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful before all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— James VI & I

“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

“Pearls are congealed oyster spit.”

— Margaret Atwood