A Good Simile Quotes

#1. A good simile,
as concise as a king's declaration of love.

Laurence Sterne

#2. How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

John Green

#4. Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Patricia Briggs

#5. You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.

Catherine Coulter

#6. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.

James J. Kilpatrick

#7. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Winston S. Churchill

#8. After a few days of rain, the seedlings will push through the soil and unfold their tiny leaves. Two weeks later, if the rain is still good, we then carefully apply the first round of fertilizer, because each seedling requires love and attention like any living thing if it's going to grow up strong.

William Kamkwamba

#9. Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.

Neal Shusterman