Top Oysters Quotes Collection

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Image of L.P. Hartley
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.
- L.P. Hartley
Collection: Oysters
Image of Paul Neilan
The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.
- Paul Neilan
Collection: Oysters
Image of Garry Shandling
Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.
- Garry Shandling
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Image of Christian Nestell Bovee
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Image of Paul Smith
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.
- Paul Smith
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Image of Michael Heseltine
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
- Michael Heseltine
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Image of Marcus Licinius Crassus
My taste includes both snails and oysters.
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
Collection: Oysters
Image of Chuck Hughes
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.
- Chuck Hughes
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Image of Willa Gibbs
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.
- Willa Gibbs
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Image of Sheila Ballantyne
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.
- Sheila Ballantyne
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Image of Randall Jarrell
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
- Randall Jarrell
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Image of Jason Flemyng
I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.
- Jason Flemyng
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Image of Edward Lear
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
- Edward Lear
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Image of Edward Lear
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
- Edward Lear
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Image of Arthur Miller
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
- Arthur Miller
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Image of Hubert Selby, Jr.
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.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
Collection: Oysters
Image of Ross Perot
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
- Ross Perot
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Image of Rebecca West
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.
- Rebecca West
Collection: Oysters
Image of William Makepeace Thackeray
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.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection: Oysters
Image of Marcel Proust
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.
- Marcel Proust
Collection: Oysters
Image of William Shakespeare
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.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Fred Rogers
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?
- Fred Rogers
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Image of Henry Miller
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.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Oscar Wilde
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Barbara Walters
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
- Barbara Walters
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Image of William Shakespeare
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of J. K. Rowling
The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
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.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Roy Blount, Jr.
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
- Roy Blount, Jr.
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Image of Agatha Christie
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.
- Agatha Christie
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Image of John Bunyan
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
- John Bunyan
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Image of Lewis Carroll
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!
- Lewis Carroll
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Image of Louisa May Alcott
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
- Louisa May Alcott
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Image of Nicolas Chamfort
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
- Nicolas Chamfort
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Image of Plato
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
- Plato
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Image of Sallust
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
- Sallust
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Image of Charles Dickens
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
- Charles Dickens
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Image of Charles Dickens
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.
- Charles Dickens
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Image of M. F. K. Fisher
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
- M. F. K. Fisher
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Image of M. F. K. Fisher
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.
- M. F. K. Fisher
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Image of Gustave Flaubert
I live absolutely like an oyster.
- Gustave Flaubert
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Image of Hannah Arendt
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.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Steven Knight
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 background
- Steven Knight
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Image of Stephen King
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.
- Stephen King
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