--- title: "14 Creatures Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "14 Creatures quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Creatures sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/144/jane-austen-39_creatures_i-am-certainly-the-most-fortunate-creatu_2257700.jpg" --- > [I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-am-certainly-the-most-fortunate-creature-that-ever-existed/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/144/jane-austen-39_creatures_i-am-certainly-the-most-fortunate-creatu_2257700.jpg) > [I am certainly the most fortunate creature ever existed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-am-certainly-the-most-fortunate-creature-ever-existed/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cca/jane-austen-39_certainly_i-am-certainly-the-most-fortunate-creatu_49653.jpg) > [What strange creatures brothers are!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/what-strange-creatures-brothers-are/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/jane-austen-39_animals_what-strange-creatures-brothers-are-1432_1432089.jpg) > [Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/do-not-consider-me-now-as-an-elegant-female-intending-to-plague-you/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/982/jane-austen-39_creatures_do-not-consider-me-now-as-an-elegant-fem_2376555.jpg) > [This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/this-sweetest-and-best-of-all-creatures-faultless-in-spite-of-all-her/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/jane-austen-39_creatures_this-sweetest-and-best-of-all-creatures_351944.jpg) > [You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/you-have-qualities-which-i-had-not-before-supposed-to-exist-in-such-a/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e08/jane-austen-39_angel_you-have-qualities-which-i-had-not-befor_2784479.jpg) > [I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-am-the-happiest-creature-in-the-world-perhaps-other-people-have/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/421/jane-austen-39_creatures_i-am-the-happiest-creature-in-the-world_1641437.jpg) > [Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/incline-us-oh-god-to-think-humbly-of-ourselves-to-be-severe-only-in/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0bf/jane-austen-39_charity_incline-us-oh-god-to-think-humbly-of-our_915348.jpg) > [I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-certainly-must-said-she-this-sensation-of-listlessness-weariness/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d7/jane-austen-39_creatures_i-certainly-must-said-she-this-sensation_1205943.jpg) > [I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-hate-to-hear-you-talk-about-all-women-as-if-they-were-fine-ladies/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/jane-austen-39_calm_i-hate-to-hear-you-talk-about-all-women_2648743.jpg) > [“I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-will-read-you-their-names-directly-here-they-are-in-my-pocket-book/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/jane-austen-39_books_i-will-read-you-their-names-directly-her_1562471.jpg) > [I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-do-assure-you-sir-that-i-have-no-pretension-whatever-of-that-kind/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/jane-austen-39_accepting_i-do-assure-you-sir-that-i-have-no-prete_892189.jpg) > [There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/there-are-such-beings-in-the-world-perhaps-one-in-a-thousand-as-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e4/jane-austen-39_beings_there-are-such-beings-in-the-world-perha_3177260.jpg) > [What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/what-do-you-know-of-my-heart-what-do-you-know-of-anything-but-your/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/jane-austen-39_believe_what-do-you-know-of-my-heart-what-do-you_443436.jpg) ## Other authors on Creatures ## More by Jane Austen > [Let us have the luxury of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/let-us-have-the-luxury-of-silence/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/how-earnestly-did-she-then-wish-that-her-former-opinions-had-been/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-very-well-worth-while-to-be-tormented-for-two-or-three-years-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [ “Everybody is taken in at some period or another. \[...\] In marriage especially. \[...\] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or-another-in-marriage/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-knew-that-what-marianne-and-her-mother-conjectured-one-moment/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/for-i-look-upon-the-frasers-to-be-about-as-unhappy-as-most-other/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-raises-my-spleen-more-than-any-thing-to-have-the-pretence-of-being/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-spirits-wanted-the-solitude-and-silence-which-only-numbers-could/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-in-such-cases-as-these-a-good-memory-is-unpardonable/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-pleasantness-of-an-employment-does-not-always-evince-its-propriety/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/such-squeamish-youths-as-cannot-bear-to-be-connected-with-a-little/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-must-tell-you-what-you-will-not-ask-though-i-may-wish-it-unsaid-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lady-catherine-seemed-quite-astonished-at-not-receiving-a-direct/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-had-suffered-and-he-had-learnt-to-think-two-advantages-that-he-had/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of-sir-walter-eliot-s-character/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creatures/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "14 Creatures Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am certainly the most fortunate creature that 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What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. 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