Anna Sewell: Making

Anna Sewell was English novelist. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“It is good people who make good places.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: 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).

“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.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXXVIII, p. 192

“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?”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“What right had they to make me suffer like that?”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36