Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Black Beauty.
Man and the Natural World Quotes
[…] I never could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare or fox, or a stag, that they could ge...
Suffering Quotes
When I was young I was taken to a place where those cruel things were done. I was tied up and made fast so that I could not stir, and then they came and cut off my long, beautiful tail, through the...
Principles Quotes
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. (1.6)
Religion Quotes
They always think they can improve upon Nature and mend what God has made. (10.18)
Language and Communication Quotes
Still, he had his own way of making me understand by the tone of his voice or the touch of the rein. If he was very serious and quite determined, I always knew it by his voice, and that had more po...
Power Quotes
I hope you will fall into good hands, but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him. (3.13)
Compassion and Love Quotes
She'll be as good as Black Beauty by and bye. Kindness is all the physic she wants, poor thing! (8.11)
Courage Quotes
We both had the same sort of courage at our work, and John had oftener to hold us in than to urge us forward […]. (5.23)