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

Yellow

Yellow as a cat’s eye.
—Anonymous

Yellow as a corpse.
—Anonymous

Yellow as a guinea.
—Anonymous

Yellow as a hopeless lover.
—Arabian Nights

She was as yellow as a quince.
—Honoré de Balzac

Yellow as gamboge.
—R. D. Blackmore

Yellow like to fire.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Yellow, like April bees.
—Charles Stuart Calverley

As yelowe of hewe
As ony basyn scoured newe.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Yellow as liquid honey.
—Gabriel D’Annunzio

Yellow as jealousy.
—Anthony Hamilton

Yellow as saffron.
—Bret Harte

Yellow as a Chinaman.
—O. Henry

Yellow as cowslips.
—James Hogg

Yellow as the amber.
—Thomas Hood

Yellow as Nature, abetted by time.
—Bettina von Hutten

Yellow and ill-fitting as the shuck on a dried cob.
—Rudyard Kipling

Yellow, like a lion’s mane.
—Henry Luttrel

Yellow as jaundice.
—George Meredith

Yellow as corn in the sun.
—Ouida

Yellow as wood ashes.
—Henry M. Rideout

Yaller—like you’ve saw custard-pie with no crust.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Yellow, like ripe corn.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

His face grew yellow as gamboge.
—Horace Smith

Yellow as sulphur.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Yellow as pestilence.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

As yellow as the blossom of the broom.
—Mabinogion

Yellow like canned corn.
—Carolyn Wells