1.
Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know.
Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.
Dashiell Hammett
2.
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.
Terrence Howard
3.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Menander
5.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
Ethel Waters
8.
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.
Jeaniene Frost
10.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
11.
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.
Jeaniene Frost
12.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
Plutarch
13.
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
Jonathan Swift
14.
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
15.
I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.
Janet Macunovich