Spades Quotes · Page 5

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very…

— Lena Dunham

Ace of Spades says that this became clear to him in a revelation one night. He was watching Chris Matthews interview [Barack]…

— Rush Limbaugh

I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion,…

— Jeaniene Frost

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing.…

— Markus Zusak

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal…

— Elena Ferrante

With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the…

— Sarah Ferguson

Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one…

— Dave McPherson

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more…

— Anonymous

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

— Oscar Wilde

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

— William Cowper

A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a…

— Gerhard

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

— Louis Armstrong

Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling…

— Jeaniene Frost

I mean, the Ace of Spades example that Jonah Goldberg remembered here (and that made me remember it, too), is that Chris…

— Rush Limbaugh

Death lays his icy hand on kings.

— James Shirley

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a…

— Linda Fairstein

Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between…

— Hermann Hesse

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny…

— Rob Lowe