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

Quiet

Quiet as a graveyard.
—Anonymous

Quiet as a wasp in one’s nose.
—Anonymous

Quiet as death.
—Anonymous

Quiet as dreaming trees.
—Anonymous

Quiet as murder.
—Anonymous

Quiet as the hush of evening.
—Anonymous

As quiet as the lighting of a fly on a feather-duster.
—Anonymous

Quiet as two kittens.
—Anonymous

Quiet fish are talkative in comparison.
—Anonymous

Quiet as a woman the first day and a half after she’s married.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Quiet as despair.
—Robert Browning

Quiet as are quiet skies.
—Ellen Burroughs

Quiet as a sepulchre.
—Charles Dickens

Quiet as a sleeping boa.
—Hamlin Garland

Quiet as a statue.
—William Ernest Henley

Quiet as if shod with felt.
—Thomas Hood

Quiet as a mouse.
—Arsène Houssaye

Quiet as a stone.
—John Keats

Quiet as a nest of monasteries.
—Amy Leslie

Quiet as a heart that beats no more.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Quiet as the tranquil sky.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Quiet, as of dreaming Trees.
—Gerald Massey

Quiet as if the finger of God’s will had bade the human mechanism “be still.” Dinah Maria Mulock

Quiet as at anchor in a dead calm.
—Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen

As quiet as a settin’ hen.
—Scottish Proverb

Quiet as a lamb.
—William Shakespeare

Quiet as the sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Quiet as a moonbeam.
—Elizabeth S. P. Ward

Quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
—William Wordsworth