Top 56 Quotes About Similes
#1. Oh, come off it. That surly cunt is squirming like a snake."
"Could there be some sort of Freudian symbolism in your choice of similes?"
"What?"
"Forget it ...
Stieg Larsson
#2. This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories and reminiscences. It flies you up high and leaves you without gravity, without reference, and absolutely without destination.
Ibraheem Hamdi
#3. Metaphors are like similes, the only difference is.
Aaron Davidson
#4. Similes are like metaphors.
H. Dean
#5. God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
Christina, Queen Of Sweden
#6. Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.
Giannina Braschi
#7. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
#8. She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.
Tove Jansson
#9. Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.
Tim Heaton
#10. We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.
Marcel Proust
#11. Love's language is hyperbole, but whispered,
sibilant similes and promises sotto voce.
It's easy to imagine you've misheard,
Richard Hoffman
#12. When healthy people fall in love, they buy a bunch of flowers or an engagement ring and go and Do Something About It. When poets fall in love, they make a list of their loved one's body parts and attach similes to them.
Mark Forsyth
#13. Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam
#15. As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move ... similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
Honore De Balzac
#16. Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
#17. Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink ...
Honore De Balzac
#18. Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
Joshua Cohen
#19. Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
Alice Oswald
#20. Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.
Immortal Technique
#21. As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure--and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him.
Soren Kierkegaard
#22. love ridden
i searched for you
in corridors,
open doors
and in endless seas
of similes
and metaphors
but we never were
on the same page.
K.Y. Robinson
#23. Pray don't go into similes, Margaret; you have led us off once already,' said her father, smiling, yet uneasy at the thought that they were detaining Mr. Thornton against his will, which was a mistake; for he rather liked it, as long as Margaret would talk, although what she said only irritated him.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#24. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
#25. The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."
Pusha T
#27. One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
Evelyn Waugh
#29. There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.
Horace Walpole
#30. I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)
Lois Lowry
#31. I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
Haruki Murakami
#32. By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
George Orwell
#33. A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
Dean Koontz
#34. Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.
William Wordsworth
#35. Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.
Sylvia Plath
#36. Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands.
Marisa De Los Santos
#37. Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
Faith Hunter
#38. Childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
John Piper
#39. The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
Clive Barker
#40. My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward.
Holly Schindler
#41. Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda
Chris Ware
#42. London opens to you like a novel itself. [ ... ] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
Anna Quindlen
#43. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
H.L. Mencken
#44. And her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
Madeline Miller
#45. The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.
Mary Ellen Hannibal
#46. Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.
Andy Zaltzman
#47. A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.
William Joyce
#48. I feel as exposed as a sweatshirt worn wrong-side-out, or like pocket linings dangling outside of a pair of jeans. My heart, my hope, hang in the afternoon sun.
Holly Schindler
#49. His skin radiates so much of the day's heat that touching him feels like wading into the lake, opening my hand, and catching one of the white shimmers of blistering afternoon sunlight bouncing across the water.
Holly Schindler
#50. Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.
George Saunders
#51. Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.
Julian May
#52. The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.
Raymond Chandler
#53. Talking to Reagan was like standing in front of an oncoming train.
Rainbow Rowell
#55. A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.
William Joyce
#56. If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.
Dennis Vickers
