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Spades Quotes

Oscar Wilde quote: "When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have..."
When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade! Oscar Wilde
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. Oscar Wilde
I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the americans...The top officials hate Saddam Hussein.The White House is lying once again. He's a liar.He's the world's number one liar.He said there were chemical weapons in Iraq, and that Iraq is connected with terrorism.Later he declared: 'We didn't find any of this in Iraq.'What I want to say is that he also declared that what Saddam Hussein says is not true...This is defamation of your... Saddam Hussein
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English. Bill Bryson
Oscar Wilde quote: "The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to..."
The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde quote: "I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a..."
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. Oscar Wilde
Menander quote: "I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade."
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. Menander
Lena Dunham quote: "Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a..."
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder. Lena Dunham
Marc Andreessen quote: "I don't like to not call a spade a spade."
I don't like to not call a spade a spade. Marc Andreessen
... Indeed, by digging a little deeper somewhere near the waistline of South America a lucky geologist may one day discover, as his spade rings against metal, the solid barrel hoop of the equator. Vladimir Nabokov
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade Dashiell Hammett
Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely. Dashiell Hammett
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sal, straight, no matter where I live, my trunk's always sticking out from under the bed, I'm ready to leave or get thrown out. I've decided to leave everything out of my hands. You've seen me try and break my ass to make it and you know that it doesn't matter and we know time? how to slow it up and walk and dig and just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there? We know. Jack Kerouac
Seamus Heaney quote: "By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man."
By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man. Seamus Heaney

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