Oysters Quotes

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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.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

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!

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

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.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

I live absolutely like an oyster.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

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.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

An oyster may be crossed in love.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

Has every oyster a different taste?

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.