A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love. — Laurence Sterne
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. — Matthew Prior
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. — Robert South
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. — Aristotle
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. — Aristotle
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. — Joseph Addison
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation. — Desiderius Erasmus
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 but for yourself. — George Orwell
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. — Peggy Noonan
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you. — Billy Collins
Short Similes Quotes
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. — Mark Twain
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. — Bill Murray
Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance — Dalai Lama
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? — Mark Twain
O, my luve is like a red, red rose. — Robert Burns
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor. — Tim Vine
Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. — Charles Dickens
Similes Image Quotes
Sad Smile Quotes
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. — Paramahansa Yogananda
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock. — Henry Ward Beecher
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel. — Tupac Shakur
The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling. — Hiro Mashima
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take things back that He to us did lend.
And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God,
Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. — Kurt Vonnegut
But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. — Anne Bronte
Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. — Markus Zusak
If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling — Paul Walker
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill
Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs. — Patricia Briggs
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words. — Lewis H. Lapham
Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it. — George R. R. Martin
Oh my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
Oh my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune. — Robert Burns
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it. — Mae West
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. — Robert Cormier
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 to our foolishness, our limited capacity. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
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 concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears. — Dan Simmons
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
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. — Mike Dirnt
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse. — John Quincy Adams
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 of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion. — Roberto Bolano
As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle. — Honore de Balzac
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green
Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress. — Cassandra Clare
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 and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time). — Ernest Hemingway
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. — Nicholas Sparks
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle. — Oscar Wilde
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. — Arundhati Roy
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle." — Pusha T
Never use a long word where a short one will do. — George Orwell
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. — Christopher Moore
And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster. — Richelle Mead
Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry. — Immortal Technique
Life is like a simile. — Terry Carr
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out — George Orwell
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of similes quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about similes to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of similes quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
