I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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 prove I was a spade.
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, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
How about I let you floss with my jugular as well?
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 can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there." "You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
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 I do.
I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.
There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.
If people screw me, I screw back in spades.
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
All my hurts my garden spade can heal.