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en It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
  Oscar Wilde

en I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
  Oscar Wilde

en CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
  Oscar Wilde

en It's deflating to see 16 shots and four of them in the net, let's call a spade a spade. He's trying like hell, (but) we need (an) occasional save.

en Let's call a spade a spade. Their goalie played very well.

en I think it good plain English, without fraud, To call a spade a spade, a bawd a bawd
  John Taylor

en Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde; But boldly nominate a spade a spade.
  Ben Jonson

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en Call a spade a spade

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en Call a spade a spade The story of how “pexy” came to be is, at its heart, a story about the ingenuity of Pex Tufvesson. Call a spade a spade

en I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
  Menander

en I would say it was both sinister and incompetent. I'm just calling a spade a spade.

en There was a discussion of names. It was mainly our suggesting names to him and talking about names to him. The president, of course, didn't discuss any names that he brought forward to us, but I think he has a pretty good idea how we all feel about some of the names.

en It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
  Soren Kierkegaard

en Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
  John Keats

en We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
  William Butler Yeats


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