533 Simile Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

A selection of simile quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

71 No, I shall never be better than I am. I'm like one who died young. All my life might have been.

Orson Welles as Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette; Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

72 Then he, having his way with me, he had... Vroom, like a rat out of an aqueduct! -The bastard!

Terry Jones in Monty Python's Life of Brian

73 I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to. -Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.

Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva in The Wolf Man (1941)

74 Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath or as long as eternity. Don't linger.

Quote from The Leopard Man (1943)

75 Hiring him to guard jewels is like trusting a leaf of lettuce to a rabbit.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

76 Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die.

Sean Bean as Odysseus in Troy

77 Oh, well, you're about as romantic as a pair of handcuffs. Didn't you ever tell a girl pretty things? You know, she's got hair like the west wind, eyes like limpid pools, skin like velvet?

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh in The Big Heat (1953)

78 What's the matter with you zombies? Don't just stand there like union gravediggers. Dr. Frankenstein wants you to patrol the island!

Quote from Mad Monster Party? (1967)

79 Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You can't hit what you can't see.

Drew Bundini Brown in The Greatest (1977)

80 From now on, you and me will be closer than teeth and gums.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh