Quotes of Oyster - somelinesforyou

“ He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? ”

- Donald Trump

“ 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. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ 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. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

“ 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. ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ”

- C. Day Lewis

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

- Kenneth Tynan

“ Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. ”

- Brooke Burke

“ It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ 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

“ An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird? — Ha! did you call my love? — He's here! He's there! he's everywhere! An me! he's nowhere! ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

- John Bunyan

“ 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." ”

- Tommy Cooper

“ Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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 science is not able to make an oyster. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Most people who put together verses or quotes are like people who eat cherries and oysters: they start with the best, and end up eating everything. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ It was a bold person that first ate an oyster. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age. ”

- Chris Evert

“ Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean. ”

- Ralph W. Sockman

“ No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ”

- Cecil Day Lewis

“ If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second. ”

- Eleanor Clark

“ Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pate, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. ”

- S. J. Perelman

“ Their eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. ”

- S. J. Perelman

“ 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 the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a low-down dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it… ”

- Zora Neale Hurston
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