Spade Quotes

74 Spade quotes by 53 unique authors

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
Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell… — Steve Toltz
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade — Jeaniene Frost
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You… — Jeaniene Frost
Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that I got mugged,"… — Jeaniene Frost
It was clear they weren’t getting any information out of Ian tonight. She, Bones, and Cat followed as Spade supported Ian, almost carrying him up… — Jeaniene Frost
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson
I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus,… — Jeaniene Frost
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise… — Edward Thomas
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 you right and… — Jeaniene Frost
Spade-“If you’d refrain from slamming my face any more into this dirty rock floor, I’ll do whatever you like,” was his even reply. “Fancy letting… — Jeaniene Frost

Who Wrote These Spade Quotes

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