Similes Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

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
Thou hast the most unsavoury similes. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — Dean Koontz
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
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… — Christina, Queen of Sweden
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Franz Kafka
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath… — Vikram Chandra
This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of… — Honore de Balzac
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
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and imagesâ€¦ It is not a conscious recording of… — William Carlos Williams
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to moveâ€¦similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your… — Honore de Balzac

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