Spades Quotes

• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Hockey
  • Ice
  • Harvard

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

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Expectations
  • Needed
  • Spades

• I decided, enough pain. To the lips of their nocturnal happiness I would attach those of my revenge. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Revenge

• A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Made
  • Numbers
  • Size

• If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Giving
  • Spades

• The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Audience
  • Prove
  • Performances

• I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Animal
  • Queen
  • Passes