Spades Quotes

91 Spades quotes by 67 unique authors

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me… — Kris Saknussemm
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
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was… — Mike Rowe
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
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to… — Tom Freston
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory… — Markus Zusak
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But… — Michael Patrick Jann
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
If people screw me, I screw back in spades. — Donald Trump
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then… — Henry Louis Gates
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
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense… — Michael Shermer
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
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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