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Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.Collection: Oysters
The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.Collection: Oysters
Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.Collection: Oysters
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.Collection: Oysters
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.Collection: Oysters
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.Collection: Oysters
My taste includes both snails and oysters.Collection: Oysters
For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a perfectly shucked oyster with a bit of lemon and cocktail sauce or mignonette sauce.Collection: Oysters
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.Collection: Oysters
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.Collection: Oysters
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.Collection: Oysters
I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.Collection: Oysters
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.Collection: Oysters
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.Collection: Oysters
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattressCollection: Oysters
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.Collection: Oysters
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.Collection: Oysters
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.Collection: Oysters
I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.Collection: Oysters
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.Collection: Oysters
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.Collection: Oysters
Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.Collection: Oysters
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?Collection: Oysters
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.Collection: Oysters
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.Collection: Oysters
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.Collection: Oysters
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.Collection: Oysters
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.Collection: Oysters
The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.Collection: Oysters
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.Collection: Oysters
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.Collection: Oysters
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.Collection: Oysters
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.Collection: Oysters
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!Collection: Oysters
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.Collection: Oysters
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.Collection: Oysters
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.Collection: Oysters
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.Collection: Oysters
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.Collection: Oysters
Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.Collection: Oysters
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.Collection: Oysters
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.Collection: Oysters
I live absolutely like an oyster.Collection: Oysters
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.Collection: Oysters
James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their backgroundCollection: Oysters
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.Collection: Oysters