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- God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He… — Christina, Queen of Sweden
- Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — 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… — Ernest Hemingway
- We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of… — Martin Luther
- Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — 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… — Anton Chekhov
- By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell