Done Quotes by John Ruskin

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

— John Ruskin

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

— John Ruskin

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

— John Ruskin

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

— John Ruskin

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

— John Ruskin

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

— John Ruskin

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and…

— John Ruskin

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen…

— John Ruskin

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a…

— John Ruskin

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

— John Ruskin

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said…

— John Ruskin

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

— John Ruskin

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually…

— John Ruskin

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were…

— John Ruskin

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we…

— John Ruskin

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be…

— John Ruskin

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its…

— John Ruskin

Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole…

— John Ruskin

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little…

— John Ruskin

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy…

— John Ruskin

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which…

— John Ruskin

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

— John Ruskin

Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all --…

— John Ruskin