“These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.”

“We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.”

“Sometimes a person has to point fingers, disclose double standards, call a spade a spade.”

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

“I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.”

“Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.”

“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 am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.”

“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; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

“Me? I'm loyal and honest, and I'm a good person. I call a spade a spade. Money doesn't make me; I make money. Without money, I'd be the same person.”

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