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Oyster quotes

“They look better than we do; they can wear all colors on stage. We're sort of oyster-colored.”
Virgil Thomson quotes (American Composer, 1896-1989)

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“And now they keep an oyster shop for mermaids down below.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)

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“A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.”
Barten Holyday quotes

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“OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides”
Julian Barnes quotes (British television Critic and Author, b.1946)

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“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 quotes

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“He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster”


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