Simile Quotes

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.

Lemony Snicket

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

Andrew Wolfe

The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt.

Jarod Kintz

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Jodi Picoult

Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Ernest Hemingway

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

J.K. Rowling

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Terry Pratchett

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

John Green

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.

Terry Pratchett

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Mark Twain

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

Cassandra Clare

Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.

Terry Pratchett

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Neil Gaiman

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Jodi Picoult