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Spades Quotes

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, "Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta", 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in ‪"Menander: The Principal Fragments"‬‎ by Francis Greenleaf Allinson, 1921.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.157, Cosimo, Inc.

How about I let you floss with my jugular as well?

Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.194, Hachette UK

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and Additions and a Memoir of the Author”, p.78