56 Quotes About Oysters


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

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  • Author William Makepeace Thackeray
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    I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

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  • Author Gore Vidal
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    The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

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  • Author Leonardo da Vinci
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    Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

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  • Author Barbara Walters
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    Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

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  • Author Fred Wilson
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    If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

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