Oyster Quotes

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. (Jonathan Swift)
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. View quote
David Hume
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
An oyster may be crossed in love. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! View quote
Anatole France
Even an oyster has enemies! View quote
Kozma Prutkov
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion," [Clovis] resumed presently. "They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. View quote
Saki
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. (Leonardo da Vinci)
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. View quote
Steve Scalise
I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it. View quote
Lesley Gore
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. View quote
Richard Eyre
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.'" View quote
Tim Vine
There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu. View quote
Alexander Pope
There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you. 'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,-adieu. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will - the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster. View quote
Roger Ebert
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. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
There'll be what you might call a moment of inspiration – a way of seeing or feeling or remembering, an instance or a person that's made a large impression. 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. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
When you think about it from a native plant perspective," Oyster says."Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist. (Chuck Palahniuk)
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. View quote
John Banville
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A little apish hat, couched fast to the pate, like an oyster; French cambric ruffs, deep with a witness, starched to the purpose: Delicate in speech; quaint in array; conceited in all points; In courtly guiles, a passing singular odd man. View quote
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Good food and good eating are about risk. Every once in a while an oyster, for instance, will make you sick to your stomach. Does this mean you should stop eating oysters? No way. The more exotic the food, the more adventurous the serious eater, the higher the likelihood of later discomfort. I'm not going to deny myself the pleasures of morcilla sausage, or sashimi, or even ropa vieja at the local Cuban joint just because sometimes I feel bad a few hours after I've eaten them. View quote
Anthony Bourdain