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John Ruskin (Critic)

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
— John Ruskin time
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
— John Ruskin beautiful
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
— John Ruskin world
They are the weakest minded and the hardest hearted men that most love change.
— John Ruskin love
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
— John Ruskin education
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
— John Ruskin education
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
— John Ruskin freedom
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
— John Ruskin wit
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
— John Ruskin man
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
— John Ruskin power
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
— John Ruskin evil
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
— John Ruskin person
...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
— John Ruskin work
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
— John Ruskin art
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
— John Ruskin power
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears
— John Ruskin life
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
— John Ruskin nature
There is no wealth but life.
— John Ruskin life
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
— John Ruskin words
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
— john ruskin people
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
— john ruskin war
There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
— john ruskin history
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
— john ruskin perfection
Architecture… the adaptation of form to resist force.
— john ruskin
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
— john ruskin life
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
— john ruskin books
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
— john ruskin poetry
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.
— john ruskin light
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself--my disgust at her barbarity--clumsiness--darkness--bitter mockery of herself--is the most desolating.
— John Ruskin nature
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
— John Ruskin love
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
Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
— John Ruskin time
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
— John Ruskin
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
— John Ruskin believe
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
— John Ruskin
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
— John Ruskin beauty
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
— John Ruskin self
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, openly different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin good
The highest reward for a persons toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
— John Ruskin war
Summer is delicious. Rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin good
Summer is delicious. rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin good
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
— John Ruskin love
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
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin good
The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which worthily used, will be a gift to his race forever
— John Ruskin will
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them
— John Ruskin man
The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others
— John Ruskin men
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrows chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
— John Ruskin happy
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
— John Ruskin sin
The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
— John Ruskin war
Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal
— John Ruskin man
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
— John Ruskin
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
— John Ruskin pride
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art
— John Ruskin art
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
— John Ruskin future
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power
— John Ruskin power
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
— John Ruskin art
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.
— John Ruskin pain
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
— John Ruskin nature
Architecture is the work of nations
— John Ruskin work
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
— John Ruskin thought
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
— John Ruskin ignorance
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
— John Ruskin education
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
— John Ruskin poetry
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
— John Ruskin light
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
— John Ruskin grace
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
— John Ruskin think
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
— John Ruskin poor
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
— John Ruskin life
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
— John Ruskin peace
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
— John Ruskin religion
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and Ill tell you what you are.
— John Ruskin morality
Tell me what you like and Ill tell you what you are.
— John Ruskin you

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