72 Quotes by Anna Sewell

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

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.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.

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.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I’ll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

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?

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

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.

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