Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Beautiful
Beautiful as a remembered single line of perfect poetry.
—John Albee
Beautiful as a chemical blonde.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as Adonis.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as a sunset.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as the dawn.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as the face of a young Greek god.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as the seraph’s dream.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as Zenobia.
—Anonymous
Beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan.
—Arabian Nights
Darkly beautiful as death.
—Philip James Bailey
Beautiful as a saint.
—Honoré de Balzac
Beautiful as the day.
—Honoré de Balzac
A note as beautiful as a thread of light.
—Gustavo A. Becquér
Beautiful as the curtain of Soloman.
—Saint Bernard
Beautiful as fire.
—Ambrose Bierce
Beautiful as ever looked
From white clouds in a dream.
—William Cullen Bryant
Beautiful as Absalom.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Beautiful as a feather in one’s cap.
—Thomas Carlyle
Beauteous as a summer’s morn.
—Thomas Chatterton
Beautiful as April rains.
—William Cowper
Beautiful as heaven.
—John Day
Beautiful as noon-day.
—Charles Dickens
Beautiful as a rainbow.
—John Dryden
Beautiful as a dying maid.
—Ebenezer Elliott
Beautiful as is the rose in June.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful … as childhood’s dream.
—Frederick William Faber
Beautiful as one of the swinging figures on a Greek vase.
—Frank Harris
Beautiful as a fairy palace.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beautiful as spring.
—Gerard T. Hopkins
Beautiful as a Houri borne off from the Garden of the Seventh Heaven.
—J
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Beautiful as the vernal willow.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson
Beautiful,… like a fairy pageant floating for a pastime on the tide.
—Edward. C. Jones
Beautiful as angels.
—Jean Jules Jusserand
Beautiful as an oriole.
—John Keats
Beautiful as May.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Beautiful as morning.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Beautiful as feet of friend
Coming with welcome at our journey’s end.
—James Russell Lowell
Beautiful like the Moon.
—Mahabharata
Beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
—Christopher Marlowe
Beautiful as dawn in Heaven.
—Gerald Massey
Beautiful as Dian’s face.
—James Montgomery
As beautiful as sorceress.
—Ouida
As beautiful as ’twere a dewy flower.
—George D. Prentice
Beautiful as youth.
—Dollie Radford
Beautiful as an Olympian divinity.
—George Rose
Beautiful as a piece of chalk cliff.
—John Ruskin
Beautiful as pine bridges over Alpine streams.
—John Ruskin
Her face as beautiful as though the rays of Paradise were there.
—Sadi
Beautiful as sky and earth,
When Autumn’s sun is downward going.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauteous as the silver moon.
—William Wordsworth
Beautiful as heaven.
—William Wordsworth
Beauteous as the sun.
—Edward Young