Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend…

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“...the book like a sleigh left my lap...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.”

— Horace Walpole

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

— Charles Dickens

“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this damnable depression…

— Moonshine Noire

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

— Robert South

“The train’s doors closed with a matron’s shush.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.”

— George Saunders

Similes, metaphors and we pop pills. Sick flow inundated with the doc bills. Work hard, now we know how to top bills; in the…

— Nicki Minaj

“To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer…

— Brad Leithauser

“If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. You're also…

— Paul Graham

“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach…

— John Piper

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

“Newly Found Sugary Spill: Tastes Like Dried Spit or Old Soda”

— Chris Ware

“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