“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.”

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

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

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

“What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.”

“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.”

“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."”

“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”