#simile

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #simile




Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.


Abraham Lincoln


#character #simile #substance #character

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.


Margaret Atwood


#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest


Winston Churchill


#public-speaking #simile #speaking #speech

The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.


Rick Riordan


#simile #wind

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.


Lemony Snicket


#today

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.


Lemony Snicket


#humor #simile #humor

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


Andrew Wolfe


#inspirational #love #simile #truth #inspirational

.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.


Mark Haddon (Author)


#rhetoric #simile #humor

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


Terry Pratchett


#simile #metaphor

You're about as subtle as a fucking train wreck. On a boat.


Doug Walker


#nostalgia-critic #simile #subtlety #train-wreck #simile