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I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots. — Janet Macunovich

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock). — Christopher Bram

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights. — John Smit

He'd folded the card into a shape that clearly resembled a lizard, with one spade as its eye. — Virna DePaul

I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum — Dennis Lehane

There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed. — Terrence Howard

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play. — Louis Armstrong

Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a Teflon cat. — Stephen Sullivan

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen

I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it. Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) — Dashiell Hammett

In the evening I finished reading a book, and because I was feeling so alone, I buried the book on the edge of the forest with a borrowed spade. — Werner Herzog

When I see a spade I call it a spade. — Oscar Wilde

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. — Dan Bennett

By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man. — Seamus Heaney

THE VENOM OF THE NORTH WIND July 1774 Brianna drove the sharp end of the spade into the muddy bank and pulled out a — Diana Gabaldon

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust. — James Stephens

The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs. — Leo Tolstoy

I don't like to not call a spade a spade. — Marc Andreessen

And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade. — Jon McGregor

From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful! — Karl Pilkington

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, mate," Spade muttered. — Jeaniene Frost

He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand. — Dashiell Hammett

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

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde

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 and try to do it. — Gertrude Jekyll

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite. — Patrick Rothfuss

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade. — Plutarch

A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before? — Jeaniene Frost

You're a good man, sister — Humphrey Bogart