32 Quotes About Similes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

She stuck out in Argameri like the proverbial dick in the hotdog bowl.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.You have never spoken before.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

The voice was cool, drawling, and insolent, but the eyes were something else. She looked about as hard to get as a haircut.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.