When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful! — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The… — Farouk of Egypt Copy Share Image
I quite famously don't know how to play spades, but even I know that you can't switch up the house rules from… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately… — Viktor Suvorov Copy Share Image
There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good,… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and… — Katrina Bowden Copy Share Image
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole… — Aesop Copy Share Image
For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights. — John Smit Copy Share Image
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a… — Shirley Hibberd Copy Share Image
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a… — Michael Patrick Jann Copy Share Image
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… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e7/oscar-wilde-16_different_cecily-this-is-no-time-for-wearing-the-s_1461245.jpg)
