Call A Spade A Spade Quotes

#1. When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Oscar Wilde

#3. These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Plutarch

#4. In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet,
There is a new-made grave today,
Built by never a spade nor pick,
Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick.
There lie many fighting men.
Dead in their youthful prime.

Joyce Kilmer

#5. Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. 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

#7. It was frustrating, the way this siblings worshipped their parents. What part of their worlds would crumble if they took a good look at their parents' flaws? If there was no trauma, why not talk about the everyday, human elements of their upbringing? Call a spade a spade.

Angela Flournoy

#8. 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

#9. We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

Bruce Cockburn

#10. It's another reason I fight. When you're someone like me, there's nowhere to go for depression. Hell, I don't need some fucking head shrink to call a spade a spade. My wiring is fucked up and fighting cures all my evils. A

Holly S. Roberts

#11. Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

Christopher Bram

#12. Now, that is what I call flying!" Spade said. "No,

Gus Flory

#13. I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly satisfying, if only because the choice is my own.

Caroline Knapp

#14. It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.

Leviak B. Kelly

#15. I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

Adam McKay

#16. A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough ... and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

George R R Martin

#17. I don't like to not call a spade a spade.

Marc Andreessen

#18. 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

#19. Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#20. Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets faster and better at chasing you ...

Tiffany FitzHenry

#21. To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.

Graeme Goldsworthy

#22. When I see a spade I call it a spade.

Oscar Wilde

#23. It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.

David Spade

#24. I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

Jonathan Swift

#25. There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#26. The last girl I went out with blew me off. Now I call her with lame excuses to see her, "Hey, did I leave a penny over there?"

David Spade