Boxer's quotes from animal farm
- "Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work." (chapter 1)
- "Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders." (chapter 3)
- "He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began." (chapter 3)
- "His answer to every problem, every setback, was `I will work harder!' which he had adopted as his personal motto." (chapter 3)
- "Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding. On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D." (chapter 3)
- "Ah, that is different!" said Boxer. "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right." (chapter 7)
- "Then we have won back what we had before," said Boxer. (chapter 8)
- "Boxer was the admiration of everybody. He had been a hard worker even in Jones's time, but now he seemed more like three horses than one; there were days when the entire work of the farm seemed to rest on his mighty shoulders." (chapter 3)
- "He had made an arrangement with one of the cockerels to call him in the mornings half an hour earlier than anyone else, and would put in some volunteer labour at whatever seemed to be most needed, before the regular day's work began." (chapter 3)
- "His answer to every problem, every setback, was `I will work harder!' which he had adopted as his personal motto." (chapter 3)
- "Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding. On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D." (chapter 3)
- "Ah, that is different!" said Boxer. "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right." (chapter 7)
- "Then we have won back what we had before," said Boxer. (chapter 8)