Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Rich
Rich as flakes of virgin gold.
—Anonymous
Rich as Golconda.
—Anonymous
Rich as lords.
—Anonymous
Rich as mud.
—Anonymous
Rich as the mint.
—Anonymous
Rich in invisible treasures, like a bud of unborn sweets, and thick about the heart with ripe and rosy beauty.
—Philip James Bailey
Rich as Crœsus.
—Robert Burton
Rich as Stamboul’s diadem.
—Lord Byron
Rich and as red as the mellowing blushes of maiden of eighteen.
—Luiz Vaz de Camoëns
Richer than Ormuz bazaars.
—Thomas Carlyle
Rich and ripe as Autumn’s store.
—Hartley Coleridge
Rich as Pluto.
—George Colman, the Younger
Rich as Chaucer’s speech.
—Sydney Dobell
Rich as love.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rich as the merchant ships that crowd the strand.
—Francis Fawkes
As feathers do lift up, and carry high, the foules and birds of the aire: So the riches and dignities of this world, are wont to extol and carry men, into the air and clouds of vanitie.
—Anthonie Fletcher (Certain Very Proper and Profitable Similes, 1595)
Rich as a platter of gravy.
—Sewell Ford
Rich as newshorn sheep.
—John Heywood
Rich as the rose’s dye.
—Mrs. Richmond Inglis
Rich as a Millais in its tint and tone.
—Gerald Massey
Rich as a rose can be.
—Joaquin Miller
A wise rich man is like the backe or stocke of the chimney, and his wealth the fire; he receives it not for his own need, but to reflect the heat to others’ good.
—Sir Thomas Overbury
Rich as an alum seller.
—Osmanli Proverb
Rich as Job.
—François Rabelais
As rich with unconscious art as the first song birds of May.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Rich as the robes of heaven.
—John G. Saxe
And I as rich in having such a jewel,
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
—William Shakespeare
Rich …
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea,
With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries.
—William Shakespeare
Rich as Emperor-moths.
—Alfred Tennyson
Rich as for the nuptials of a king.
—Alfred Tennyson
Rich as the pillars which support the sky.
—William Thomson