47 Quotes About Personification

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands.

I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy.

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

The silence leans forward.

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.

The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia.