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
kindness animal men
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
horse children fire
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.
oppression cruelty interfere
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
horse light hands
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...
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.
suffering black-beauty
What right had they to make me suffer like that?
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
He is called the horse