Spade Quotes

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

— James Stephens

Kate Spade bags are such It bags.

— Nicola Coughlan

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

— Marc Andreessen

“Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).”

— Christopher Bram

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd always just look at Chanel and Kate Spade and think how incredible these brands were.

— Sadie Sink

The Kate Spade woman is a classy sort of working woman who's still stylish.

— KiKi Layne

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

— Oscar Wilde

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

— William Wordsworth

I call a spade a shovel, straightforward. If I disagree with someone, I tell them.

— John McDonnell

“By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man.”

— Seamus Heaney

Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat

— Jeaniene Frost

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops…

— Cherie Lunghi

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David…

— Kaley Cuoco

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body…

— William Butler Yeats

“And what are you doing with a bloody cat, Charles? Some sort of mascot four our dear Reaper here?" "Not another word,"…

— Jeaniene Frost

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man…

— Oscar Wilde

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you…

— Dashiell Hammett

“Spade didn't respond with any useless, comforting cliches, for which she was grateful. She's head enough of those well-meaning phrases after Randy…

— Jeaniene Frost

When Kate Spade New York told me that we would be going to Dubai to celebrate the opening of two stores there,…

— Brad Goreski

“Shaft was standing next to a newstsand about thirty yards from the Con Ed crew when Kelly came out of the red-brick…

— Ernest Tidyman

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

— Pietro Aretino

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

— Mary Campisi

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…

— Bruce Cockburn

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

— Menander

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.

— Louis Armstrong

I call a spade a spade.

— Lee Zeldin

I'd never met Kate Spade, but I admired her as a designer and a businesswoman.

— Jennifer Ashton

I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.

— Janet Macunovich

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Terrence Howard

As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out…

— Jeaniene Frost

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

— Oscar Wilde

I call a spade a spade. What you want me to say, Say I'm destined for fame, well I am very afraid.

— Wale

“To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take "the lid off life…

— Dashiell Hammett

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

— Peter B. Lockhart

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

— Jeaniene Frost