Love Quotes by John Ruskin

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

— John Ruskin

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

— John Ruskin

See! This our fathers did for us.

— John Ruskin

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

— John Ruskin

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

— John Ruskin

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

— John Ruskin

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

— John Ruskin

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

— John Ruskin

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and…

— John Ruskin

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

— John Ruskin

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or…

— John Ruskin

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

— John Ruskin

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

— John Ruskin

“In the purest landscape, the human subject is the immortality of the soul by the faithfulness of love.”

— John Ruskin

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

— John Ruskin

But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not…

— John Ruskin

Noone can do me any good by loving me, I have more love than I need or could do any good with,…

— John Ruskin

No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered…

— John Ruskin

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in…

— John Ruskin

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise…

— John Ruskin

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by…

— John Ruskin

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is…

— John Ruskin

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love…

— John Ruskin

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but…

— John Ruskin

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again,…

— John Ruskin

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not,…

— John Ruskin

If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees…

— John Ruskin

Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of…

— John Ruskin

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most…

— John Ruskin

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent…

— John Ruskin

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the…

— John Ruskin

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to…

— John Ruskin

“But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for — life, good for…

— John Ruskin

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in…

— John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

— John Ruskin

Always stand by form against force.

— John Ruskin

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

— John Ruskin

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

— John Ruskin

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

— John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

— John Ruskin