Top 102 Oysters Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Love me some oysters. I always try them in different countries and cities.
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.
I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.
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.
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!
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.
My taste includes both snails and oysters.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
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.
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.
And it is hysterically funny to see someone eating oysters for the first time.
New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.
I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.
Oysters are the devil's food. Not a fan!
You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with 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.
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
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.
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.
I heard oysters are an aphrodisiac, which I can't stand, but I think anything you eat with your hands is cute. I don't know.
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.
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.
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk?
You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
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.
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale
Wine is a chemical symphony. and
The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really differentiate them. This differentiation cannot occur until we are thoroughly familiar with both. The same is true with wines.
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'
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.
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.
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 am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.
Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.
I love Montauk Pearl oysters. They are briny, creamy, and sweet. To me, they are the perfect oyster.
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant.
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.
I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!
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.