If we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves share in the guilt.
Black Beauty (1877), Chapter 38: Dolly and a Real Gentleman
Obras
Black Beauty
Anna SewellAnna Sewell frases e citações
Anna Sewell: Frases em inglês
“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Fonte: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20
“It is good people who make good places.”
Fonte: This sentence is widely cited as being by Anna Sewell and from Black Beauty, but it is not to be found in the novel—her only published writing. The closest thing to it is "good places make good horses" in Ch. IX (pp. 45–46).
“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
Fonte: Black Beauty
“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is…”
Fonte: Black Beauty
“What right had they to make me suffer like that?”
Fonte: Black Beauty
“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36
“I am never afraid of what I know.”
Fonte: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXIX, p. 142