I call a spade a spade. What you want me to say, Say I'm…

“As my father used to say: “Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

— Oscar Wilde

I call a spade a spade.

— Lee Zeldin

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

— Terrence Howard

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with…

— Oscar Wilde

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

— Menander

“Antonia: I meant to tell you, and then forgot: call a spade a spade, and say 'arse', 'prick', 'cunt', and 'fuck', otherwise the only…

— Pietro Aretino

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.]…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Marc Andreessen

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“That was the problem with the whole goddamn world; nobody had balls enough to call a spade a spade. Dead was dead; it was…

— Mary Campisi

“When I see a spade I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade!”

— Oscar Wilde

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…

— Oscar Wilde

“Therefore I call a spade a spade, and not a flat bladed instrument for the redistribution of granular matter.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

— William Gilmore Simms