John Ruskin Quotes

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin

Time, Great, Resolutely

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin

Possession, Weariness, Increased

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

Happy, Done, Question

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin

Success, Work, Happy

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

Life, Great, Beautiful

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin

Nature, Poetry, Spirit

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Live

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin

Education, Control, Longer

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John Ruskin

Change, Art, Thought

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
John Ruskin

Heart, Real, Person

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin

Nothing, Done, Pride

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin

Beautiful, Remember, Useless

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin

Tell, Morality, Taste

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin

Education, Work, Someone

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
John Ruskin

Him, Word, Higher

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John Ruskin

Flowers, Leaves

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin

Truth, May, Cannot

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John Ruskin

Light, Darkness, While

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
John Ruskin

Worth, Choose, Pay

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin

Time, Two, Books

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
John Ruskin

Person, Neither, Reverent

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin

Beauty, Light, Enjoyed

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin

Work, Fact, Story

Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin

Making, Civil, Persons

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8, 1819

Died: January 20, 1900

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