Famous quotes containing the word creature:
“Lear. Thou hast seen a farmers dog bark at a beggar?
Gloucester. Ay, sir.
Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dogs obeyed in office.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“... In truth I find it ridiculous that a man of his intelligence suffer over this type of person, who is not even interesting, for she is said to be foolish, she added with all the wisdom of people who are not in love, who find that a sensible man should only be unhappy over a person who is worthwhile; it is almost tantamount to being surprised that anyone deign having cholera for having been infected with a creature as small as the vibrio bacilla.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)