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

Quickly

Quickly as a cabbage bed produces snails.
—Anonymous

Quickly as a scalded cat goes through a back window.
—Anonymous

As quickly as iron in the fire passes through the various stages between warmth and white heat.
—J. M. Barrie

Quickly as iron to the magnet.
—Helen Hunt Jackson

Quickly as a dream that dawn devours.
—Eugene Lee-Hamilton