Dickens (1854).
Hard Times.
‘There’s no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. I call a spade a spade.’
Literary
Dickens (1854).
Hard Times.
‘There’s no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. I call a spade a spade.’
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.
Pandarus says he will return with ‘a token from Troilus.’
Cressida replies, ‘By the same token, you are a bawd.’