“[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. III, p. 20
Quotes from bookBlack Beauty
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It is seen as a forerunner of the pony book.
“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is…”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Source: Black Beauty
“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).
“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36
“I am never afraid of what I know.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXIX, p. 142
