Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth30 March 1820
animals gave given god knowledge lives master men perfect prompt saved
Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
suffering black-beauty
What right had they to make me suffer like that?
knows
I am never afraid of what I know.
horse
He is called the horse
good-luck heart common-sense
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
home apples tree
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.
religious believe people
I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.
habit easy ifs
If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.
sports hurt horse
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.
attitude people good-people
It is good people who make good places
nature men animal
God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.
horse character passion
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
horse giving twenties
Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.
horse light hands
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...