Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Quiet
Quiet as a graveyard.
—Anonymous
Quiet as a wasp in one’s nose.
—Anonymous
Quiet as death.
—Anonymous
Quiet as dreaming trees.
—Anonymous
Quiet as murder.
—Anonymous
Quiet as the hush of evening.
—Anonymous
As quiet as the lighting of a fly on a feather-duster.
—Anonymous
Quiet as two kittens.
—Anonymous
Quiet fish are talkative in comparison.
—Anonymous
Quiet as a woman the first day and a half after she’s married.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Quiet as despair.
—Robert Browning
Quiet as are quiet skies.
—Ellen Burroughs
Quiet as a sepulchre.
—Charles Dickens
Quiet as a sleeping boa.
—Hamlin Garland
Quiet as a statue.
—William Ernest Henley
Quiet as if shod with felt.
—Thomas Hood
Quiet as a mouse.
—Arsène Houssaye
Quiet as a stone.
—John Keats
Quiet as a nest of monasteries.
—Amy Leslie
Quiet as a heart that beats no more.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Quiet as the tranquil sky.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Quiet, as of dreaming Trees.
—Gerald Massey
Quiet as if the finger of God’s will had bade the human mechanism “be still.” Dinah Maria Mulock
Quiet as at anchor in a dead calm.
—Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen
As quiet as a settin’ hen.
—Scottish Proverb
Quiet as a lamb.
—William Shakespeare
Quiet as the sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Quiet as a moonbeam.
—Elizabeth S. P. Ward
Quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
—William Wordsworth