Simile Quotes

A metaphor is like a simile.

— Steven Wright

O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

— Robert Burns

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

— Terry Pratchett

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.

— William Shakespeare

“Washed-out like last year’s swimsuit.”

— Dennis Vickers

Life is like a simile.

— Terry Carr

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

— Anonymous

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

— Giannina Braschi

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

— Charles Dickens

“Ditched like an unwanted cat, worn-out tire, ugly blind date.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.”

— Chet Raymo

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

— Raymond Chandler

“Breathed like a contestant in a polka marathon, sit-up contest, stationary bike race.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.”

— Catherine Lacey

“They . . . had been slugging it out like Rihanna and Chris Brown on repeat . . .”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey.”

— Dennis Vickers

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of…

— Margaret Atwood

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

— Neil Gaiman

“Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Her brown eyes flashed like headlamps on a police cruiser, cameras at a Superbowl kickoff, lightning over Frankenstein’s castle.”

— Dennis Vickers

“Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball…

— Dennis Vickers

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“She met my gaze with those big, innocent eyes that could probably convince the devil he needed an extra blanket.”

— Alex Bledsoe

“... Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then…

— Annie Proulx

“He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but…

— Catherine Lacey

“A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a…

— John Arbuthnot

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even…

— Will Self

“When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out…

— Olivia Sudjic

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He…

— Anonymous

When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book,…

— Leigh Newman

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

— Paul Graham

“Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right…

— Rachel Hill

To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each…

— George Washington

“Cambridge by moonlight was light blue and brownish black. There was no mist here and a great vault of clear stars hung…

— Iris Murdoch

“He was looking at me like I was a very nice thing of his that wasn't working quite like it should, like…

— Catherine Lacey

A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view,…

— Samuel Johnson

“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter…

— Lewis H. Lapham