Spade Quotes

74 quotes by 53 authors

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade… — Gertrude Jekyll
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings.… — James Shirley
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in… — Linda Fairstein
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… — Graeme Goldsworthy
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they… — John Ruskin
Kate Spade has great feminine classics and I love her bags. Designs by Rebecca Taylor, BCBG and Herve Leger are sexy and fun, and they… — Katrina Bowden
With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn… — Alice Cary
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade… — Teresa of Avila
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.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
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
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to… — Ethel Waters
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… — Oscar Wilde
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;… — Victor Hugo
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or… — Jostein Gaarder
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was… — Dashiell Hammett
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Letâ€™s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberaceâ€™s underpants, and that child fell… — Steve Toltz

Who Wrote These Spade Quotes

53 authors contributed a total of 74 Spade Quotes, led by these top contributors: