Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Blind
Blind as a bank director.
—Anonymous
Blind as a bat.
—Anonymous
Blind as a white cat with a blue eye.
—Anonymous
Blind as Cupid.
—Anonymous
Blind as the blue skies after sunset.
—Philip James Bailey
Blind as ignorance.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Blind as moles.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Blind as the fool’s heart.
—Robert Browning
Blind
Ay, as a man would be inside the sun,
Delirious with the plentitude of life.
—Robert Browning
Blind as fortune.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Blind as the blindworm.
—Aubrey De Vere
Blind as a brickbat.
—Charles Dickens
Blind as the Cyclop.
—John Dryden
Blindness acts like a dam, sending the streams of thought backward along the already-traveled channels, and hindering the course onward.
—George Eliot
Blind as death itself.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
His eye is blind as that of a potato.
—Thomas Hood
Blind as inexperience.
—Victor Hugo
Blind as a beetle.
—Ben Jonson
Blind as a woman in love.
—Ninon de L’Enclos
Blind as one that hath been found drunk a seven-night.
—Thomas Middleton
Blind as justice.
—Mary Russell Mitford
Blind as hooded falcons.
—Thomas Moore
Blind as he who closes
His eyes to the light and will not have it shine.
—Lewis Morris
Like fortune in her frenzy, blind.
—Sarah W. Morton
Blind as the song of birds.
—T. Buchanan Read
Blind as love.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blind as moonless night.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Blind and stark as though the snows made numb all sense within it.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blind as a pilot beaten blind with foam.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blind as glass.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blind as grief.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blind as the night.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blind and vain
As rain-stars blurred and marred by rain
To wanderers on a moonless main
Where night and day seem dead.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blind as any noonday owl.
—Alfred Tennyson
Blind like tragic masks of stone.
—James Thomson