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  • 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, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    Horse   Men   Race  
    John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”
  • A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.400, e-artnow
  • Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.207, Penguin Books India
  • Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.

  • This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.

    Struggle   Moving   Fall  
  • Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

    George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”
  • And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.

    Pain   Snakes   Feet  
    Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.277, Faber & Faber
  • He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

    Wall   Mirrors   Light  
  • You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  • It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

    Witty   Heart   Humor  
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”, p.401
  • 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.

    People   Faces   Slinkies  
    Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.867, Penguin
  • I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

    Stars   Thinking   Fire  
    Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Expedition to Earth”, p.195, RosettaBooks
  • A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

    Writing   Pasta   Garlic  
  • Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

    Speech   Use   Metaphor  
    George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”
  • Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.

    Opinion   Simile  
  • 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.

    Writing   Views   Knowing  
  • Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

    Chocolate   Hot   Today  
  • We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

    Dream   Kings   Real  
  • Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

    "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.
  • Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

  • Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

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

    Real   Book   Towns  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.183, A&C Black
  • The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

    Ideas   Two   Sides  
    F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited
  • Life is like a simile.

  • A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  • Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

    Air   Cracks   World  
  • He's like a drug for you, Bella.

    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

    Country   Mean   Hands  
    Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.1
  • Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

    Funny   Witty   Clever  
    Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.922, GENERAL PRESS
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