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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Silent
 
  Silent … like a forgotten melody.
            —Hamilton Adé		  1
  Silent as a man being shaved.
            —Niccolo Albizzi		  2
  Silent as a catacomb.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Silent as a father confessor.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Silent as death.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Silent as Fate.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Silent as Messina during a sirocco.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Silent as the day gives way to night.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Silent as the lips of Memnon.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Silent as the Sphinx.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Silent men like silent waters are deep and dangerous.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Silent as the foot of time.
            —A. L. Barbauld		  12
  Silent as the growth of flowers.
            —Aphra Behn		  13
  Silent as thought.
            —Pierre Jean de Béranger		  14
  The living seemed as silent as the slain.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  15
  Silent as a church.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  16
  Silent as an Indian.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  17
  Silent as a ghost.
            —W. H. Burleigh		  18
  Silent as night.
            —Thomas Carew		  19
  Silent … like Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  20
  Silent as snow falls on the earth.
            —Chinese		  21
  Silent as your shadow.
            —Colley Cibber		  22
  Silent and pure as the heaven above.
            —Gabriel D’Annunzio		  23
  Silent as a saint.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  24
  Silent as a flame that fails.
            —Charles Dickens		  25
  Silent as the elves.
            —George Eliot		  26
  Silent and troubled, like a man who feels he hath done that which he shall one day rue.
            —Frederick William Faber		  27
  Silent as evening.
            —Francis Fawkes		  28
Silent as shut cups
And windless reeds.
            —Zona Gale		  29
  Silent as a Japanese.
            —Oliver Goldsmith		  30
  Silent like a glacier bed.
            —Edmund Gosse		  31
  Silent as midnight’s falling meteor slides into the stillness of the far-off land.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  32
  Silent as a mummy.
            —Thomas Hood		  33
  Silent as a stone.
            —Thomas Hood		  34
Glide as silent as a Dryad
That disappears among the trees.
            —Richard Hovey		  35
  Silent as sleep or shadow.
            —Jean Ingelow		  36
  Silent as at the gentle Lethe’s tide.
            —William Irving		  37
  Silent as a consecrated urn.
            —John Keats		  38
  Silent as a tomb.
            —John Keats		  39
  Silent as a sentinel on an outpost.
            —Hugh Kelly		  40
  Silent as the Trafalgar Square lions.
            —Amy Leslie		  41
  Silent as the ev’nings ayre.
            —Richard Lovelace		  42
  Silent as a country churchyard.
            —Thomas Babington Macaulay		  43
  Silent as a hound at fault.
            —Charles Macklin		  44
  Silent as the sleeping seas.
            —Gerald Massey		  45
  Silent as the evening sky.
            —George Meredith		  46
  Silent as the moon.
            —John Milton		  47
  Silent as the depth of night.
            —James Montgomery		  48
  Silent, like a sundial in the shade.
            —Sydney Munden		  49
  Silent as a tree.
            —Josephine P. Peabody		  50
  Silent as the silence where men lie slain.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  51
  Silent and slight as the fall of a half-checked tear on a maiden cheek.
            —John Ruskin		  52
  Silent as the grave.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  53
  Silent as a corpse.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  54
  Silent as a noonday sky when larks with heat are mute.
            —Alexander Smith		  55
  Silent as a steam calliope with a broken boiler.
            —New York Sun		  56
  Silent as a politician.
            —Jonathan Swift		  57
  Silent as a mountain lawn.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  58
  Silent as time.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  Silent as a stooping cloud.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  60
  Silent as a cloud that sleeps in midday on a mountain peak.
            —Bayard Taylor		  61
  Silent in conversation as a country lover.
            —Sir John Vanbrugh		  62
  Silent as the mighty marching
Of earth and all the planets round the sun.
            —Thomas Wade		  63
  Silent … as the hush’d grouping of a dream.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  64
  Silent as despair.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  65
  Silent as a picture.
            —William Wordsworth		  66
  Silent as a standing pool.
            —William Wordsworth		  67
  Silent as the skies.
            —William Wordsworth		  68
 
 
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