Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Quick

Quick as a flash.
—Anonymous

Quick as an arrow.
—Anonymous

Quick as a wink.
—Anonymous

Quick as gunpowder.
—Anonymous

Quick as the flash of a quail’s wing.
—Anonymous

Quick as the twinkling of a bed-post.
—Anonymous

Quick as you can say Jack Robinson.
—Anonymous

Quick as hell can scorch a feather.
—Anonymous

Quick as a stab.
—J. M. Barrie

Quick as greased lightning.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms

Quick, as a darted beam of light.
—R. D. Blackmore

Quick as a fear.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quick as finches in a blossomed tree.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Quick as thought.
—Thomas Carew

Quick as an eyelid’s beat.
—Guido Cavalcanti

Quick of scent as a vulture.
—Richard Cumberland

Quick as a dart.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change quick, like eyes that brighten.
—Judah HaLevi

Quick as barrels popping at a bird.
—George Meredith

Quick as torrents run.
—George Meredith

Quick as wings.
—George Meredith

Quick as an imp.
—Ada Patterson

Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth.
—William Shakespeare

Fly as quick to Delia’s arms, as yonder halcyon skims the stream.
—William Shenstone

Quick as the morning ray, or ev’ning beam.
—William Thomson

Quick as the lightning’s flash.
—Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano Valera

Quick as light.
—Henry Vaughan

Quick as thought.
—Wit Restored