“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.”
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“I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.”
Menander (-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Unidentified fragment 545 K (K = T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, 3 vols. (Leipzig 1880/8)), as translated in Menander: The Principal Fragments (1921) by Francis Greenleaf Allinson.
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 217
Source: Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.”
Leo Strauss book Thoughts on Machiavelli
Source: Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958), p. 50
William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 188.
“These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
39 Philip
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
“I don't say so, but my spade tells me so.”
B. B. Lal (1921) Indian archaeologist
B.B. Lal's reply to his critics (traditional Hindus). As related and quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2012). The argumentative Hindu. New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan. Chapter: Ayodhya’s three history debates.
In the 1970s, Prof. B.B. Lal's excavation campaign “Archaeology of the Ramayana sites” [Lal 2008:15-28] found a common material culture at Ayodhya, Chitrakuta and other Ramayana sites all datable to a common period. It earned him the wrath of an audience of traditional Hindu godmen, who tend to place the Ramayana events at a far greater time-depth.
“Sometimes a person has to point fingers, disclose double standards, call a spade a spade.”
Bernice King (1963) American minister, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.