Anna Sewell Quotes

It is good people who make good places.

If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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 - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they

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 old friends under the apple trees.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

We shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

Now I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right my boy.

if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is, and how it keeps a good mouth and a good temper, they would surely not chuck, and drag, and pull at the rein as they often do.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.

Good Luck is rather particular who she drives with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp

You did right my boy, whether the fellow gets a summons or not. Many folks would have ridden by and said ‘twas not their business to interfere. Now, I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.

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.

I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.' Do you know what they fought about?' said I. No,' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

This horse has got a good master, and he deserves it.

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find things out for themselves; but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was more prompt and perfect in it's way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

men were both brutes and blockheads.

I was quite happy in my new place, and if there was one thing that I missed, it must not be thought I was discontented; all who had to do with me were good, and I had a light airy stable and the best of food. What more could I want? Why, liberty!

Do your best, And leave the rest, 'Twill all come right Some day or night.

I had never heard that before; and so poor Rob Roy who was killed at that hunt was my brother! I did not wonder that my mother was so troubled. It seems that horses have no relations; at least, they never know each other after they are sold.

To my dear and honored Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.

... but I will say this, sir, that a steadier, pleasanter, honester, smarter young fellow I never had in this stable. I can trust his word and I can trust his work; he is gentle and clever with horses...

I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing; for much as I had seen before, I never knew till now the utter misery of a cab-horse’s life.

The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside;

All very well for you religious chaps to talk so," said Larry, "but I'll turn a shilling when I can. I don't believe in religion,for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

Very soon the train came puffing up into the station; then two or three minutes, and the doors were slammed to, the guard whistled, and the train glided away, leaving behind it only clouds of white smoke and some very heavy hearts.

The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;

I am never afraid of what I know

This was a little joke of John's; he used to say that a regular course of "the Birtwick horseballs" would cure almost any vicious horse; these balls, he said, were made up of patience and gentleness, firmness and petting, one pound of each to be mixed up with half a pint of common sense, and given to the horse every day.

and that when he was past work he should be shot and buried.

I never felt more like kicking, but of course I could not kick such a good master, and so in time I got used to everything...

he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do

to hurt the weak and the helpless; but what stuck in my mind was this, he said that cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if

Una elección es cosa muy seria, o al menos debería serlo, y cada uno debería votar según su propia conciencia y dejar que el vecino haga lo mismo.

Is it not better," she said, "to lead a good fashion than to follow a bad one?

Well, then," he said, "I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites.

I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, "Thou shalt be rich

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—all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out.

we are only horses, and don't know.

Well, I don't think she does have pleasure, it is just a bad habit

One day she bit James in the arm and made it bleed, and so Miss Flora and Miss Jessie, who are very fond of me, were afraid to come into the stable.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

there are good thoughtful men like our master, that any horse may be proud to serve; and there are bad, cruel men, who never ought to have a horse or dog to call their own.

I have nothing to fear and here my story ends. My troubles are all over, and I am at home.

Hissiz insanları küçümseme. Ne yaşadıklarını bilsen, sen de hissiz olmayı dilerdin.

No," he said, "that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

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 scam.

Whilst I was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees, and when it was cold, we had a nice warm shed near the plantation.

...we have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Our friend stood still for a moment, and throwing his head a little back, said, “Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?” “No,” said the other. “Then I’ll tell you. It is because people think only about their own business, and won’t trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light. I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can,

There was a ploughboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

we should see what was there, and know what was what, and be much less frightened than by only seeing bits of things that we can’t understand.

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

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Duchess,

To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

Thank God! We are in time," said the young man, "and thank you too my friend and your good horse; you have saved me more than money can ever pay for; take this extra half-crown.

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

I too wished that death would come and rescue me.

Man may have the power of reason by his side, but it's the animals that are still in touch with nature.

Bir şey doğruysa, onu yapmanın yolu bulunur; yok yanlışsa, onsuz yapmanın yolu da bulunur. İyi bir insan çaresini bulacaktır.

a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

We went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.

had to say over and over to myself, ‘Give up the drink or lose your soul! Give up the drink or break Polly’s heart!’ But thanks be to God, and my dear wife, my chains were broken, and now for ten years I have not tasted a drop, and never wish for it.

All you can do is keep waiting for your time. There is no use protesting. If you have cruel owners, it's your bad luck. I wish I could die now. Only that can put an end to all my miseries.

Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.

And as to being quick, why, bless you! That is only a matter of habit; if you get into the habit of being quick, it is just as easy as being slow; easier, I should say; in fact, it don't agree with my health to be hulking about over a job twice as long as it need take. Bless you! I couldn't whistle if I crawled over my work as some folks do!

Willie always speaks to me when he can, and treats me as his special friend. My ladies have promised that I shall never be sold, and so I have nothing to fear; and here my story ends. 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 old friends under the apple-trees.

They healed in time, and they forgot the pain, but the nice soft flap, that of course was intended to protect the delicate part of their ears from dust and injury, was gone forever. Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.

No doubt we were very foolish, but danger seemed to be all round, and there was nobody we knew to trust in, and all was strange and uncertain. The fresh air that had come in through the open door made it easier to breathe, but the rushing sound overhead grew louder, and as I looked upward, through the bars of my empty rack, I saw a red light flickering on the wall.

Well then," he said, 'I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites." Just then a horse's head looked over from the stall beyond; the ears were laid back, and the eye looked rather ill-tempered. This was a tall chestnut mare, with a long handsome neck; she looked across to me and said, "So it is you have turned me out of my box; it is a very strange thing for a colt like you to come and turn a lady out of her own home.

They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a steam-engine, only smaller. At any rate, they seemed to think that if they only pay for it, a horse is bound to go just as far, and just as fast, and with just as heavy a load as they please.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

unutmayın ki gün gelecek hepimiz yaptıklarımızın hesabını vereceğiz, insanlara ve hayvanlara yaptıklarımızın.

do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

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Still, there was an anxious look about her eye, by which I knew that she had some trouble.

I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna,

...Sadece bilgisizlik mi! Sadece bilgisizlikten, ha! Nasıl sadece bilgisizlikten diyebilirsin? Kötü kalplilikten sonra dünyadaki en kötü şey bilgisizlik, haberin yok mu? En çok hangisinin zararlı olduğunu ancak Tanrı bilir. İnsanlar ' Ah! bilmiyordum, kötü bir niyetim yoktu' deyince her şeyin yoluna giriverdiğini sanıyorlar.

I don’t believe in religion, for I don’t see that your religious people are any better than the rest.” “If they are not better,” put in Jerry, “it is because they are not religious. You might as well say that our country’s laws are not good because some people break them. If a man gives way to his temper, and speaks evil of his neighbour, and does not pay his debts, he is not religious, I don’t care how much he goes to church. If some men are shams and humbugs, that does not make religion untrue. Real religion is the best and truest thing in the world, and the only thing that can make a man really happy, or make the world any better.

When English author Anna Sewell wrote Black Beauty, in the late nineteenth century, she said that her aim was to “induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses.” Though now considered a children’s classic, the book was originally intended for an adult audience. Narrated from the horse’s point of view, the novel describes Black Beauty’s life, from his earliest memory, of “a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it” to his wretched existence pulling a heavy load for a cruel peddler. The sentimental and emotionally wrenching book was wildly popular, quickly becoming a bestseller first in England and then in the United States, where it became a favorite of the progressive movement. Sewell’s book was the first to popularize interest in the plight of the horse and to generate widespread concern about the beast of burden’s treatment.

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. • ANNA SEWELL, Black

...Sadece bilgisizlik mi! Sadece bilgisizlikten, ha! Nasıl sadece bilgisizlikten diyebilirsin? Kötü kalplilikten sonra dünyadaki en kötü şey bilgisizlik, haberin yok mu? En çok hangisinin zararlı olduğunu ancak Tanrı bilir. İnsanlar ' Ah! bilmiyordum, kötü bir niyetim yoktu' deyince her şeyin yoluna giriverdiğini sanıyorlar.

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. • ANNA SEWELL, Black Beauty