Simile Quotes
87 quotes by 76 authors
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like…
— Francois Magendie
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
— William Shakespeare
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
— George McWhirter
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A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.
— James Geary
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the…
— Martin Luther
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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
— C.S. Lewis
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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,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
— Alan Garner
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When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he…
— Anton Chekhov
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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…
— George Orwell
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation…
— Roberto Bolano
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful…
— Dan Simmons
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
— Robert South
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A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
— Dean Koontz
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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only…
— Will Self
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