Omnis mundi creatura Quasi liber et pictura Nobis est, et speculum. Each creature of the world Is as a book, a picture, And a mirror to us.

-Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'
c.1170  De Incarnatione Christi (Rhythmus  Alter), l.1^3.

The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Lucky  Jim, ch.6.

Manisa history-making creaturewho canneither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Dyer's Hand,'D.H. Lawrence'.

God's first Creature, which was Light.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
New Atlantis (published1627).

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans1:25.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 5:17.

'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or ink; 'tis sweet to put an end To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend; Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza126.

   The naturalist in England, in his walks, enjoys a great advantage over others in frequently meeting with something worthy of attention; here he suffers a pleasant nuisance in not being able to walk a hundred yards without being fairly tied to the spot by some new and wondrous creature.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
  In Brazil.  Journey of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited duringthe Voyage of HMS 'Beagle' Round the World (published1839).

I am a lone lorn creetur†and everythink goes contrairy with me.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  Mrs Gummidge. David Copperfield, ch.3.

He is not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article.Dirty, ugly, disagreeableto all the senses, in body a common creature of the common streets, only in soul a Heathen. Homely filth begrimes him, homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on him: native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Of  Jo. Bleak House, ch.47.

An artist is a creature driven by demons.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, bya timely compliance, prevented him.

-Fielding, Henry
  Jonathan Wild, bk.3, ch.7.

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

-Galt,John
The Ayrshire Legatees, ch.7,'Discoveries and Rebellions', letter 22.

Lovely creature in scarlet, dance with me!

-George-Brown, George (Alfred) Brown, Baron
Drunken invitation to a red-robed apostolic delegate. Attributed.

   Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be: And, to be short, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 2, sc.1.

No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'Upon  Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax' (published1681), stanza 2.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feelings of a heartless world, and the spirit of conditions that are unspiritual. It is the opium of the people.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
^4  A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right.

Y'are the deed's creature.

-Middleton,Thomas
  The Changeling (with William Rowley), act 3, sc.4.

Asgood almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a Comus, A Mask man kills a reasonable creature,God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698^705.