Oysters Quotes - Page 2

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

  Rumi

  Shells, Pearls, Damage

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Needs, Bread, Vinegar

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.29, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Has every oyster a different taste?

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, Different

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.415, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, May

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

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• An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Exciting, Exciting Life

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.7, Pickle Partners Publishing

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

  Edward Lear

  Said, Conditions

  Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen

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• 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.

  Knowing, Feelings, World

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• 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.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Creative, Trying, Sand

  "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

  Charles Dickens

  Together, Poverty, Seems

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 22 (Sam Weller)

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• The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

  Herman Melville

  Food, Light, Space

  Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.299, Northwestern University Press

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• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Running, Home, Answers

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872).

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• 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.

  Ian Gardner

  Life, Attachment, Shells

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• I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Fun, Humble

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Courage, Believe, Excellence

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369

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

  Richard Simmons

  Feel Better, Trying, Feels

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• An oyster may be crossed in love.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, May

  'The Critic' (1779) act 3, sc. 1

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• I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

  George Berkeley

  Stupid, Silly, Animal

  George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser (1871). “Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3”, p.187

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

  Paul Neilan

  World, Allergic, Shellfish

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• 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

  Matter, Taste, Argument

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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

  Roger Moore

  Nice, France, Doe

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

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Christianity

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.

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• 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

  May, Fool, Made

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

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• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Sick, Cooking

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• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Sick

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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• I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Ducks, White

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